Best Georg C. Lichtenberg Wisdom
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Accumulate
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Character
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Age
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Character
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Men still have to be governed by deception.
Deception
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Burning
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real…
Afford
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Any
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Ape
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
Difficult
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers…
Backside
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Dangerous
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Action
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Form
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to…
Acknowledging
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Always Better
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Air
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
From
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Alone
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Acute
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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.
Armed
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this…
Acquaintance
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot…
Believe
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large…
Advantage
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Ask
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