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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

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Men, Neutrality, Impartiality

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 78, 1799.

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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

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Philosophy, Science, Profound

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

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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

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Book, Common Sense, Religion

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

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Nature, Men, Humanity

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

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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

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Average, Mind, Brain

"Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook K", K 39), (1789-1793).

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People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.

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America, People, Political

"Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook G", G 2), (1779-1783).

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Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

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Humility, Accuracy, Capitalism

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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

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Beautiful, Science, Etc

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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

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Men, Soul, Body

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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

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Believe, Our Actions, Sometimes

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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

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Believe, People, Wish

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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

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Writing, Sunshine, Weather

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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

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Expression, Soul, Originals

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Ambition and suspicion always go together.

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Ambition, Together, Suspicion

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Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

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Feelings, Virtue, Habit

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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

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Blame, Excuse, Should

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

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Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

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Education, Men, Thinking

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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

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Despotism, Formidable

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Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

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Centre, Frontiers

"A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book edited by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 153, 1991.

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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

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Reflection, Men, Knows

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 8, 1799.

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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Reviews, Enormous, Critical

"Taking the pith", www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2001.

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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Battle, Strange, Should

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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

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Integrity, People, Faults

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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

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Grateful, Self, People

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Virtue, Premeditation

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

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