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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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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Physicist
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København
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Nations
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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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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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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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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