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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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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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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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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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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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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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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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