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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
Anything
Believe
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Wish
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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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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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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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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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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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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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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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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