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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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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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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 a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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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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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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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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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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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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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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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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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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