A parable: He always wears spurs but never rides. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.127 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #TaskAvoidance

If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

With many a work of a celebrated man I would rather read what he has crossed out than what he has let stand. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.131 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation #Gestalt

A parable: He always wears spurs but never rides. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.127 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #TaskAvoidance

Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

With many a work of a celebrated man I would rather read what he has crossed out than what he has let stand. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.131 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation #Gestalt

Never before had a mind come to a more majestic halt. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook C.3 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.115 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

Whisper, immortal muse, of the insanity of the great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.13 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

To seek to see in everything something no one has yet seen and no one has yet thought of. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.246 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

To discover relationships and similarities between things that no one else sees. Wit can in this way lead to invention. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook I.9 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Gestalt

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.39 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on... — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook E.91 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

To discover relationships and similarities between things that no one else sees. Wit can in this way lead to invention. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook I.9 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Gestalt

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation... — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.96 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

Use, use your powers: what now costs you effort will in the end become mechanical. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.52 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes