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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.
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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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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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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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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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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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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