Georg Christoph Lichtenberg said this quote

“ Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride. ”

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If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg