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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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French Moralist
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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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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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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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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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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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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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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