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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
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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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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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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