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Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.


G. C. Lichtenberg

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G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderl...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to dis...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animal...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG i want to die but live at the same time.
G/C trust me i am trying a lot harder than you think, trust me all i do is try even though it might not ...
G/C if only someone understood what was going on inside my head how every night i feel like i am dying a...
G/C i am not good enough for you i am not pretty enough to fit your expectations i am not the "it girl" ...
G/C depression is deeper than sadness its a mix of feelings except for happiness
G/C Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a chi...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rival...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at tim...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of c...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be impa...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing th...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG 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 The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG 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 The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants an...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfe...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the a...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there...
C. G. CAMPBELL Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put the...
C. G. CAMPBELL We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
C. G. JUNG Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
C. G. JUNG We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psyc...
C. G. JUNG Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. C. BRAINARD Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J G C BRAINARD There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There i...
TOM LICHTENBERG Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the bes...
BENJAMIN LICHTENBERG To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide
BENJAMIN LICHTENBERG In each of us there is a little of all of us
GEORGE LICHTENBERG A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with every...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH 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