I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't...

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't...

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to...

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree...

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to...

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to...

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

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

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

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which...

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which...

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do...

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do...

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if...

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if...

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly...

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly...

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough...

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough...

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent,...

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent,...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to...

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble...

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are...

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving...

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving...

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.