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He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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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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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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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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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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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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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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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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