One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
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LICHTENBERG The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing th... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood... JOHANN GEORG HAMANN The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider eve... JOHANN GEORG HAMANN Men still have to be governed by deception. GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misun... JOHANN GEORG HAMANN With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann. JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eye... GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG