"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."

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Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 29, 1799.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.”
“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any â€œsocial contractâ€ or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.”
“All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation".”
“Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.”
“If it doesn't light you up, you're not the right person for the job.”
“Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.”
“As you go through life, donâ€™t let your feelings-real as they are-invalidate your need to let the truth of Godâ€™s words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.”
“The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.”

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