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.

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that...

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that...

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of...

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of...

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until...

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until...

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly...

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly...

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

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

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants...

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants...

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to...

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to...

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his...

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his...

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...

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

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...

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some...

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some...

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...

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough...

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough...

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving...

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving...

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.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of...

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of...

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...