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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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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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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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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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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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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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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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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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