G C Lichtenberg Famous Quotes
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.
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse."
To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
"I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does."
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards."
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 large part of genius consists.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G C Lichtenberg Quotations
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
J R R Tolkien
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Anonymous
"All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone."
Richard von Weizscker
"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people."
Lillian Eichler Watson
"The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them."
James Oliver
"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
Grace Murray Hopper
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Stanislaw Lec
"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a"
Samuel Johnson