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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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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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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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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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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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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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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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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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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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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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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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