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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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København
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Men
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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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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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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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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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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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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