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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
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Physicist
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København
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Creatures
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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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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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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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 girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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