“Virtue by premeditation isn’t worth much.”
G.C. Lichtenberg
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“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.”
G.C. Lichtenberg
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“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”
G.C. Lichtenberg
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“The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.”
G.C. Lichtenberg
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“What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don’t deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don’t we just as often draw the wrong ones?”
G.C. Lichtenberg
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“The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.”
G.C. Lichtenberg
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“There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.”
G.C. Lichtenberg
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“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.”
G.C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.”
G.C. Lichtenberg
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“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.”
G.C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
