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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
Mathematician
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Physicist
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København
Formidable
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Religion
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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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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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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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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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
