Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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

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• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Black
  • Painting
  • Lie

• Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Like
  • Angry
  • Two

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Way
  • End
  • Bubbles

• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Being
  • Nation
  • Unfortunate

• Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Air
  • Wind

• I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Always
  • Never
  • Boxes

• When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Mean

• I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Time
  • Money
  • Love

• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Great
  • Best
  • Baby

• I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Long
  • Love
  • May

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • People
  • Job
  • Politics

• I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Thought

• I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Money

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • Up
  • America
  • Environment

• I believe that, if managed well, the Fourth Industrial Revolution can bring a new cultural renaissance, which will make us feel part of something much larger than ourselves: a true global civilization. I believe the changes that will sweep through society can provide a more inclusive, sustainable and harmonious society. But it will not come easily.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Believe
  • True
  • Society

• 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
  • Believe
  • Free