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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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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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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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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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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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