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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
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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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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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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.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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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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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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