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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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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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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.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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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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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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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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