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"A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly col…" — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg — Quotes for Free

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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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