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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

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

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#creation #determinism #evidence #free #free will

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#connects #free #friction #gliding #habit

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#claim #contested #creature #fact #inferred

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cleverest #err #far #human #least

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. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#applause #demand #hinders #means #our

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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If you fall then that's not all... if you wish to be down then stay down... if you wish to be up then get up. ↗

— Janice Markowitz

#fall #get #stay #then #up

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#love #person #qualities #reason #sometimes