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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. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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