Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Habits
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
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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.