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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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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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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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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