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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
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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Those who never have time do least
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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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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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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
Georg C. Lichtenberg
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
