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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.

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Wise, Learning, Mean

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 38, 1799.

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He who understands the wise is wise already.

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Wise, Wisdom

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 49, 1799.

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There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'

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Believe, People, Waiting

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There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

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Thinking, People, Doe

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 59, 1799.

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Those who never have time do least

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Achievement

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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.

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Nature, Weakness, Humans

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 7, 1799.

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Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

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Doubt, Dangerous, Vigilance

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 53, 1799.

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You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

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Beautiful, Running, Believe

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 160, 1799.

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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

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Love, Being Alone, Men

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 40, 1799.

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To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

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Writing, Knows

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What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

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Science, Discovery, Mind

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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

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Science

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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

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Inspirational, God, Animal

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 49, 1799.

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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

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Real, Men, Heaven

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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."

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Two, Doubt, Four

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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

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People, Littles, Ifs

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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

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Judging, Feelings, Able

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Men still have to be governed by deception.

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Men, Hype, Political

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Genius

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 48, 1799.

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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

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Growing Up, Growing, Growing Old

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 13, 1799.

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How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

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Ideas, Liberty, Mankind

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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

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Pain, Exercise, Needs

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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

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Heart, Thinking, People

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Too much is unwholesome.

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Too Much

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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

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Thinking, Light, Free Spirit

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 36, 1799.

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