“ 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. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ 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
“ Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. 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… Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. 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? Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. Georg C. Lichtenberg
“ Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. Georg C. Lichtenberg
