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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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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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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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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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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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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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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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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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