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One has to do something new in order to see something new.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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