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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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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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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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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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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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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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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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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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