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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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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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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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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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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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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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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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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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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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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 fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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