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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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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French Moralist
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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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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 makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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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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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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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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