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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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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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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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In every man there is something of all men.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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