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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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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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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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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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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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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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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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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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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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