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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
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 Quotes)
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a large part of genius consists (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it (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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
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 C Lichtenberg Quotes)
You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)