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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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