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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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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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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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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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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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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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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.
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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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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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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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