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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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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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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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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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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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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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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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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