There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. 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-neworderscience Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. Georg C. Lichtenberg blameexcusefirsts One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. Georg C. Lichtenberg judgingcharactermen 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 libraryprinciplestime 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-spiritlightthinking 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 takenbelievebook 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 effortdonesteps Men still have to be governed by deception. Georg C. Lichtenberg hypepoliticalmen If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. Georg C. Lichtenberg honestypracticepeople What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion. Georg C. Lichtenberg minddiscoveryscience 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 agetimechildren To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. Georg C. Lichtenberg imitationformopposites Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. Georg C. Lichtenberg godanimalinspirational Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." Georg C. Lichtenberg fourdoubttwo Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. Georg C. Lichtenberg inventionmenheaven 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 layswrittenwriting 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 learningwisemean 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 irondiscoveryscience A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. Georg C. Lichtenberg shouldbookworld He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. Georg C. Lichtenberg rivalsconceitedlife
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