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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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
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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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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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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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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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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.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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