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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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 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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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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