More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
  2. With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
  3. The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
  4. Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventua…
  5. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
  6. A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
  7. The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
  8. A great speech is easy to learn by heart and a great poem even easier. How hard it would be to memorize as many words linked together sense…

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