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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.
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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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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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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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.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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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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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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