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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
Mathematician
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Physicist
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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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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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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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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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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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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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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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