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Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he wont encounter many rivals. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to ones own advantage and to that of ones craft that a large part of genius consists. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before theyre worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
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