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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Georg C. 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 -
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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 -
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
Georg C. Lichtenberg