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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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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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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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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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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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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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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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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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