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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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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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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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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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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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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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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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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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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