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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
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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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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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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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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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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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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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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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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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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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