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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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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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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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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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