#her

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#bright #closer #everyone #genius #geniuses

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#become #bestow #content #earnest #fleeting

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#create #created #god #his #image

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#beholds #dreams #her #his #inferred

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#heart #illusions #therefore #thy #trust

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#dangerous #doubt #more #must #otherwise

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

#back #called #human #human nature #knowledge

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

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