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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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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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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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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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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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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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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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Those who never have time do least
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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