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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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Soldier, Argument, Oppression

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 19, 1799.

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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Mistake, Animal, Humans

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 30, 1799.

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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

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Self Improvement, Improvement, Blunt

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 70, 1799.

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If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

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Book, Ifs

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With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

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Pain, Color, May

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If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

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Sparrows, Made, Brandy

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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

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Men, Animal, Mind

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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

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Wind, Names, Two

"'Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten' ('Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious')". Book by Sigmund Freud, as translated by James Strache, p. 101, 1960.

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Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

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Littles, Infinite

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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

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Men, Long, Morality

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 12, 1799.

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Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

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Inspirational, Names, Feet

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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.

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Mind, Body, Forget

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

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Time, Peace, Passion

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 30, 1799.

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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

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Children, Clever, Men

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

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Discovery, Firsts, Columbus

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 42, 1799.

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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

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War, Dark, Clouds

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 50, 1799.

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The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

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Genius, Blind, Deaf

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Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

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Reading, Thinking, People

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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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Men, Blind, Imagine

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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

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Art, Book, Writing

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 52, 1799.

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Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

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Views, Judging, Natural

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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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Cutting, Knives, Two

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Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

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Men, Unjust, World

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How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

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Few Friends, Sentiments, Ifs

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No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

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Conceited, People, Feelings

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Born: July 1, 1742
Died: February 24, 1799
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