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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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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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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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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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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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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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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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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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