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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? — Georg C. Lichtenberg

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man is a masterpiece of creation ... — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ambition and suspicion always go together. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better? — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg