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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
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København
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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