.. If we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
race drive things
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
self-love love
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
life wisdom wise words speaking stupid
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
intelligence mirrors book mirror books
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
reading libraries soul library books
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
posterity footsteps genius eternity god
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
truth lies falsehood distortion
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
independence philosophy
philosophy truth
When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.
philosophy truth science
I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.
politics liberty government
Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
strength character opinions peace-of-mind critical-thinking
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
truth
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
belief life absurdity
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
belief men
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