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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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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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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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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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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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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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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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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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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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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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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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