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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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Physicist
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København
Sunt
Ergo
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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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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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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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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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