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.

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is...

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is...

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble...

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble...

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many...

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many...

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no...

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no...

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to...

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to...

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original...

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original...

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent,...

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent,...

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over...

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over...

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance...

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are...

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part...

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part...

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

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

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made...

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to...

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation...

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation...

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise,...

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise,...

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

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