Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

Lichtenberg’s aphorism wryly links inner tranquility to the refusal to take fixed positions. “Having no opinion” can be read less as intellectual laziness than as a skeptical discipline: suspending judgment, resisting partisan heat, and avoiding the ego-investment that turns beliefs into sources of anxiety and conflict. The line also satirizes the psychological comfort of disengagement—peace purchased by not caring, not committing, or not being drawn into controversy. In that tension lies its bite: it praises the serenity of detachment while hinting at the moral and civic cost of perpetual non-commitment. The remark fits Lichtenberg’s broader Enlightenment skepticism about certainty and self-deception.