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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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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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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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