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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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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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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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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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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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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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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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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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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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