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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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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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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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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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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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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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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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