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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, né à Ober-Ramstadt le 1er juillet 1742 et mort à Göttingen le 24 février 1799, est un philosophe, écrivain et physicien allemand. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. juillet 1742 – 24. février 1799
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“Dieu a créé l'homme à son image, dit la Bible; les philosophes font exactement le contraire en créant Dieu à la leur.”

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“On est toujours enclin à croire que le travail est aisé à celui qui a un talent. Il te faut peiner toujours, homme, si tu veux accomplir de grandes choses.”

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“La tendance humaine à considérer de petites choses comme importantes en a produit plusieurs qui sont fort grandes.”

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“Que l'homme soit la plus noble des créatures, voilà qui se laisse aussi prouver par le fait qu'aucune autre ne lui a contesté cette affirmation.”

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“Pendant longtemps je n'ai pas bien compris d'où il venait qu'il m'était si affreusement difficile de lire les livres de plusieurs polygraphes célèbres et, finalement, je remarquai la chose suivante : la raison réside en ceci que ces gens sont d'une telle insignifiance en comparaison des véritables grands hommes, que l'on ne peut être attiré de découvrir ce qu'ils savent.”

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“Cet homme avait tant d'intelligence qu'il n'était presque plus bon à rien dans le monde.”

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“Parmi les plus grandes découvertes qu'ait faites la raison humaine ces derniers temps il y a, selon moi, l'art de juger les livres sans les avoir lus.”

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“D'une pensée, le philosophe se place au-dessus du monde et le grand homme, lui, le remplit.”

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“Celui qui est amoureux de soi a au moins l'avantage de ne pas avoir trop de rivaux.”

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“Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance?”

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“L'Américain qui découvrit le premier Christophe Colomb fit une méchante découverte.”

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“La méthode du carnet de notes est hautement recommandable. On y inscrit toute phrase, toute expression. On s'enrichit à l'épargne des vérités de quatre sous.”

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“Si vous faites peindre une cible sur la porte de votre jardin, vous pouvez être certain que l'on tirera dessus.”

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“Je me fis comme règle que le soleil ne me trouvât jamais au lit tant que je serais en santé. Agir ainsi ne me coûta rien, puisque mon attitude envers les lois que je me prescrivis moi-même fut toujours de ne me les imposer qu'au moment où il m'apparaissait quasi impossible de les transgresser.”

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“Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.”

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D 25
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)

“When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.”

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Source: Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.”

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A 58
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook A (1765-1770)

“With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.”

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H 23
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)

“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.”

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D 70
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)

“I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.”

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L 98
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)

“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”

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F 87
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.”

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F 8
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“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.”

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C 23
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)

“I have written a good number of drafts and small reflections. They are not waiting for the last touch but for the sunlight to wake them up.”

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B 29
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

“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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G 2
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)

“Ideas too are a life and a world.”

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F 70
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.”

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L 49
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)

“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”

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C 26
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)

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

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F 53
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.”

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F 81
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”

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F 54
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.”

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B 44
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

“The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.”

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K 68
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

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

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G 46
Variant translation: The inclination of people to consider small things as important has produced many great things.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)

“To be content with life — or to live merrily, rather — all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.”

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K 29
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

“A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.”

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F 69
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.”

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J 146
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

“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.”

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K 51
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

“A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.”

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J 10
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

“When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?”

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D 66
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)

“It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.”

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F154
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.”

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F 100
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“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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D 58
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)

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