To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotations
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With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.