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• The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

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  Men, Proof, Creatures

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 58, 1799.

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• The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

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  Science, Special, Littles

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 55, 1799.

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• There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

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  People, Important, Different

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 81, 1799.

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• Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

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  Mistake, Greatness, Men

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• It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

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  Simple, Men, Discovery

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• One has to do something new in order to see something new.

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  Science, Order, Something New

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 1770, 1799.

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• Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Law, Advice

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• The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Worry

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• If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

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  Honesty, Practice, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 54, 1799.

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• There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

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  Moving, Two, Way

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 22, 1799.

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• It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

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  Torches, Crowds, Beard

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 4, 1799.

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• Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

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  Past, Men, Unhappy

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• Delicacy in woman is strength.

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  Delicacy

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• Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

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  Time, Library, Principles

  "'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.

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• To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

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  Sin, Vow, Break

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• An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

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  Glasses, Dust, Lasts

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• The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

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  Inspirational, Philosophy, Important

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• Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

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  Firsts, Blame, Excuse

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 39, 1799.

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• Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

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  Writing, Lays, Written

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• Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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  God, Passion, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 21, 1799.

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• To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

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  Book, Reading, Mean

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• The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

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  Latin, Speaks Out, Devil

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• I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

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  Love, Hate, Convinced

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 54, 1799.

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• Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

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  Understanding, Today, Position

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

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• The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

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  Book, Would Be, Banned Books

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