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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
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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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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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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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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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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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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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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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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