More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
  2. He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
  3. The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
  4. Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
  5. The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
  6. With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
  7. The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
  8. Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventua…

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