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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)
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises. (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad. (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)
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety. (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries. (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. (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)
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 Quotes)
One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart (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)
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)