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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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København
Anything
Believe
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Wish
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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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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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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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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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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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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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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Those who never have time do least
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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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
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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