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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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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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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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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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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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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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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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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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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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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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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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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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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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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