Ideas too are a life and a world.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
rules people
People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.
people
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
people truth system
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
life content
There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another.. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
method life
life
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 part of genius consists.
gifts life
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?
food men war
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
age truth
If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
truth theend
It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
truth
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.
mind truth
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
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