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"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Fantasy
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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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Human Nature
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"The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders."
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Temptation
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"Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Affectation
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"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
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Flattery
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"Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Astronomy
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"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Advantage
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"I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Other People
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"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
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Ideals And Idealism
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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
Applause
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"If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Angels
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"The proof that the human being is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it."
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"In each of us there is a little of all of us."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
People
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"Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Aristocracy
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"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Apathy
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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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Dishonesty
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"Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle."
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Company
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"A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense."
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Fools And Foolishness
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"Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was -- nobody any longer wanted to be that."
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Disciples
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"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
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New World
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"There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face."
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