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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook K," aph. 21, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by Hollingdale (1990).)
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook K," aphorism 27, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook K," aphorism 51, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook K," aph. 37, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook K," aph. 13, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook K," aph. 72, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook J," aph. 249, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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