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 Read Quote
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
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? Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
