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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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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French Moralist
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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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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 you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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