What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

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It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

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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.

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Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

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