Quotes and phrases from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:
“It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.”
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“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”
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“Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?”
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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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“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
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“Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.”
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“Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”
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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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“God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.”
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“Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.”