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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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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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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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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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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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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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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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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