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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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København
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Men
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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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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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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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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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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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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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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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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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