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I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves but which they identify with from the interior.
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.
Quotes By Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater...
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the...
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our...
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion...
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the...
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Here take back the stuff that I am nature knead it back into the dough of...
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One must judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have...
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to...
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the...
Quotes About Men
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It...
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles but by producing them. They...
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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them...
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge...
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Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
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Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact you would...
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.