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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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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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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.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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