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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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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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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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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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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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