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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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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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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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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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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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