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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Scientist

Born: July 1st, 1742

Died: February 24th, 1799

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