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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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København
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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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In every man there is something of all men.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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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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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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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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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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