#ms

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#people #prevent #read #simply #themselves

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#certain #circumstances #deeds #demand #even

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#21st century #awareness #buildings #century #civic

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

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

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#his #i #influence #like #look

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#big city #chicago #city #instead #large

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#atheist #combating #father #forms #his

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#had #i #past #problems #ten

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets. ↗

— Judith Light

#circles #closets #exactly #fear #gay