#h

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#better #handful #soldiers #than

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#dangerous #doubt #more #must #otherwise

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#distorted #most #slightly #truths

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. ↗

— Dave Navarro

#health #i #obsessive

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#back #called #human #human nature #knowledge

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#actual #any #aristocracy #cannot #decree

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #delight #demonstrates #having #leads

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. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#covered #decorum #every #every man #his

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#does #earnest #every #flattery #hates