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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
Scientist
University Teacher
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København
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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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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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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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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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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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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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 fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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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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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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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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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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