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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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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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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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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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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.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
