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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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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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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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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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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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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