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How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was! — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Ideas too are a life and a world. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Too much is unwholesome. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Everything that matters in life flows through tubes. — Georg Christoph 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

There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures! — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts? — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." — Georg C. Lichtenberg

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears ... as easily as we open and shut our eyes. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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

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

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

They do not think, therefore they are not. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. — 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