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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