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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 you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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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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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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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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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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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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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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