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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
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Scientist
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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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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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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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