We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more … - Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious. . . . I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

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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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