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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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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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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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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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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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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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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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