Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own...

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own...

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

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

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

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which...

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which...

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

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

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or...

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or...

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...

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...

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of...

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings 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...

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...

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do...

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do...

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if...

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if...

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed...

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed...

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 book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly...

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly...

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's...

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's...

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.