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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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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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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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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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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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