We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
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. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage – he won’t encounter many rivals. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
