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21 " Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet know. "
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , The Waste Books
22 " He who is enamoured of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. "
23 " En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos que no son sino iniciales de otras "
24 " Sometimes we know a person better than we can say, or at least than we do say. "
25 " Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. "
26 " There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. "
27 " In the weak, lack of strength to defend oneself passes over into complaining. This can be observed in children when they are mistreated by bigger children; but the best always stay obstinately and defiantly silent. "
28 " El único defecto de los escritores realmente buenos es que casi siempre ocasionan que haya muchos malos o regulares. "
29 " Nuestros tiempos, donde los insectos coleccionan insectos y las mariposas hablan de mariposas. "
30 " Je mehr man in einer Sprache durch Vernunft unterscheiden lernt, desto schwerer wird einem das Sprechen derselben. Im Fertig-Sprechen ist viel Instinktmäßiges, durch Vernunft läßt es sich nicht erreichen. "