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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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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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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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