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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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 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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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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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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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