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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men

Deception

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Virtue

Worth

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Arguments

Soldiers

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Character

Nothing

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Aristocracy

Law

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Idea

Nobility

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Love

Hate

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Genius

Ideas

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.