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• Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

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  Lying, Book, Reading

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 65, 1799.

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• Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

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  Heart, Reason, Pure

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• I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Pleasure

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• The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

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  Men, Lust, Ordinary

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• It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

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  Children, Sarcasm, Mind

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 157, 1799.

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• The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

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  Believe, Sight, Scotland

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 26, 1799.

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• How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

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  Science, Letters, Might

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• One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

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  Book, Forbidden, Forefathers

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• The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things

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  Sex, Race

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• One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

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  Truth, World, This World

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• If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

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  Philosophy, Mind, Philosopher

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 23, 1799.

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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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  Want, Excuse, Excellent

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• The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

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  Girl, Sex, Women

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• Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.

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  Pride, Strange, Twinkling

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• Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

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  Want, Sides

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 32, 1799.

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• It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

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  Philosophy, Games, Imagination

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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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  Book, Evidence, Please

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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

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  Years, Genius, Original Ideas

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1779 - 1788.

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• Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

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  Said, Brevity

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• If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.

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  Teacher, Errors, Race

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• It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

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  Smell, Our Words, Tools

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• I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

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  Giving, Done, Deeds

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• There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

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  Believe, Differences, Believing In Something

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• We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

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  Vision, Remember, Awe

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 65, 1799.

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• The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

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  Men, Mind, Weakness

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