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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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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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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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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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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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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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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 Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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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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