The Waste Books
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.”
“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.”
“When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?”
“Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.”
“I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.”
“You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.”
“You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying”
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