The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. Georg C. Lichtenberg More Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg More Quotes From Georg C. Lichtenberg One has to do something new in order to see something new. Georg C. Lichtenberg something-new order science Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. Georg C. Lichtenberg blame excuse firsts One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. Georg C. Lichtenberg judging character men 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. Georg C. Lichtenberg library principles time 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 free-spirit light thinking I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us. Georg C. Lichtenberg taken believe book 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 effort done steps Men still have to be governed by deception. Georg C. Lichtenberg hype political men If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. Georg C. Lichtenberg honesty practice people What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion. Georg C. Lichtenberg mind discovery science One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind. Georg C. Lichtenberg age time children To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. Georg C. Lichtenberg imitation form opposites Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. Georg C. Lichtenberg god animal inspirational Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." Georg C. Lichtenberg four doubt two Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. Georg C. Lichtenberg invention men heaven Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before. Georg C. Lichtenberg lays written writing 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 learning wise mean A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example. Georg C. Lichtenberg iron discovery science A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. Georg C. Lichtenberg should book world He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. Georg C. Lichtenberg rivals conceited life
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