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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Education, Opposites, Dignity
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 96, 1799.

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Education, Couple, Believe
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 82, 1799.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Education, Men, Thinking

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Education, Teacher, Teaching

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