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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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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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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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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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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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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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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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