Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The…

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

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Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was — nobody any longer wanted to be that. - View Quote Details on Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat…
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. - View Quote Details on People often become scholars for the same reason they become…
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. - View Quote Details on If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so…
We may use Lichtenberg’s writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden. - View Quote Details on We may use Lichtenberg’s writings as the most wonderful dowsing…
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn’t let it go for less than half-a-crown. - View Quote Details on As the few adepts in such things well know, universal…
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. - View Quote Details on I believe that man is in the last resort so…
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. - View Quote Details on Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other…
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. - View Quote Details on There are people who possess not so much genius as…
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient…. To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. - View Quote Details on Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each…
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. - View Quote Details on If this is philosophy it is at any rate a…