“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
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“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage — he won’t encounter many rivals.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Action
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“Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Worry
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“We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“Virtue by premeditation isn’t worth much.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time
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“Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Theory
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“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Temptation
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“A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Teacher
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“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to look out.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
