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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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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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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 worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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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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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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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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