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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorisms (1765)

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It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.

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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

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

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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

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