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

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the...

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the...

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe...

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see...

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see...

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...

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

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...

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 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...

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.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree...

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...

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...