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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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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 man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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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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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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