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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 journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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