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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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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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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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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 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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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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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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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