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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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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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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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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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