He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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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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Men still have to be governed by deception.
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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