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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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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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 motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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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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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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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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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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