Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
From Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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