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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
Improve
Gods
Nations
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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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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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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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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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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