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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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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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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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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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