More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy - at least until we have become as clever as they are.
  2. 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 stil…
  3. To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
  4. Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
  5. 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, befor…
  6. A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
  7. When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
  8. Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

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