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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
Written by 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.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Written by Georg C. 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.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
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.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Written by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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