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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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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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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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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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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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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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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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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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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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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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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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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