Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Influence
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on...
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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.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
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The intercourse with reasonable people is advisable to everybody because, in this way, a blockhead can become wise by imitation, for the greatest blockheads can imitate, even apes and elephants can do it.
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We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.