More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
  2. Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
  3. Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
  4. A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid.…
  5. 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…
  6. As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to t…
  7. Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.
  8. The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

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