God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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