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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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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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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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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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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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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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