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.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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