Quote #58
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
- Ideas too are a life and a world.
- Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
- I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.
- Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
- Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
- We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
- There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and …