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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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Philosopher
Physicist
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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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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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Those who never have time do least
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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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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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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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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