| With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| Reading means borrowing. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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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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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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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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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. |
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- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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