"We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

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Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 4, 1799.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Understanding Quotes #Age Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.”
“A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.”
“What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?”
“When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.”
“Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.”
“Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.”
“Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.”
“Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 77, 1926.

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