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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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University Teacher
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København
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Believe
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Wish
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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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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 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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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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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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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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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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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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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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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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