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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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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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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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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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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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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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