G C Lichtenberg

G C Lichtenberg: Love is blind,...

G C Lichtenberg: Love is blind,...

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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G C Lichtenberg: If an angel...

G C Lichtenberg: If an angel...

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2...

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G C Lichtenberg: Here take back...

G C Lichtenberg: Here take back...

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud,...

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G C Lichtenberg: It is no...

G C Lichtenberg: It is no...

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say,...

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G C Lichtenberg: Judge men not...

G C Lichtenberg: Judge men not...

Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

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G C Lichtenberg: Man loves company...

G C Lichtenberg: Man loves company...

Man loves company -- even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

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G C Lichtenberg: If this is...

G C Lichtenberg: If this is...

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

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G C Lichtenberg: Ideas too are...

G C Lichtenberg: Ideas too are...

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Source: Aphorisms, Notebook F, aph. 70 (written...

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G C Lichtenberg: Man can acquire...

G C Lichtenberg: Man can acquire...

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes...

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G C Lichtenberg: Man is a...

G C Lichtenberg: Man is a...

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their...

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G C Lichtenberg: Most subjects at...

G C Lichtenberg: Most subjects at...

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become...

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G C Lichtenberg: It is almost...

G C Lichtenberg: It is almost...

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in...

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G C Lichtenberg: If another Messiah...

G C Lichtenberg: If another Messiah...

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

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G C Lichtenberg: Much can be...

G C Lichtenberg: Much can be...

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his...

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G C Lichtenberg: Man is always...

G C Lichtenberg: Man is always...

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

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G C Lichtenberg: Much reading has...

G C Lichtenberg: Much reading has...

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

Source: Aphorisms, Notebook...

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G C Lichtenberg: It is in...

G C Lichtenberg: It is in...

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a...

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G C Lichtenberg: If people are...

G C Lichtenberg: If people are...

If people are taught how to think and not always what to think, a false concept will be guarded...

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G C Lichtenberg: Nothing makes one...

G C Lichtenberg: Nothing makes one...

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. ....

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G C Lichtenberg: Once the good...

G C Lichtenberg: Once the good...

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered...

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