Georg C. Lichtenberg

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#encounter #himself #least #love #many

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#does #earnest #every #flattery #hates

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

#back #being #bush #cloud #dough

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#convinced #hate #i #i am #love

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #believes #cannot #contested #free

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ever #hunger #millions #necessary #only

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#find #itself #least #little #little bit

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#always #better #build #cards #castles

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#bumped #chair #child #error #fall

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

#almost #begotten #case #everywhere #greater