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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8fe7796 | He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 89c7fde | There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 0ed8106 | The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 6a9464f | We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| d399494 | The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| bfedf1d | Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| e8fe272 | With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| a895228 | A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 1d138e7 | The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 4de3d83 | One has to do something new in order to see something new. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 1060e7f | Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| b10dc73 | Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| c6b7da0 | The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 45f5c58 | Man loves company -- even if it is only that of a small burning candle. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 27ebc6c | First we have to believe, and then we believe. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| ab75083 | If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 0a837a9 | Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| 20d0251 | He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | ||
| e9bbe6f | From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. | Georg Solti | ||
| 1cd336c | Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. | Georg Solti | ||
| 3e7d006 | Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find. | Georg Solti | ||
| 5536611 | Charlie Rose: What's your favorite symphony in the world now? Sir- | Georg Solti | ||
| da541d7 | To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| cf7f994 | There are Plebes in all classes. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 05dfa20 | India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 34686d6 | The owl of Minerva first begins her flight with the onset of dusk. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 3e01c9f | Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| b6e318b | Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 0e3e948 | History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 429a120 | Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 39b87e9 | Whom are you?" he said, for he had been to night school. | George Ade | ||
| aaa6011 | The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin. | George Ade | ||
| 693bdee | A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window. | George Ade | ||
| 2771cc7 | Moral: In uplifting, get underneath. | George Ade | ||
| 35ac014 | Moral: It all depends. | George Ade | ||
| 6908f31 | Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything. | George Ade | ||
| 42de378 | MORAL: If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. | George Ade | ||
| 34b3c70 | MORAL: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window. | George Ade | ||
| ea54ed4 | I see unhealthy signs of a new regime of religiosity and conservatism. | George Alec Effinger | ||
| 1935fda | There are more strains of courage than merely facing a sword. | George Alec Effinger | ||
| bf6badb | Proper knowledge defeats the shouting minions of emotion. | George Alec Effinger | ||
| 87cf0d0 | Government by emotion is identified with rule by tyranny. | George Alec Effinger | ||
| 67c1469 | You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots. | George Alec Effinger | ||
| c984e5c | His thoughts grew confused, and he mistook that quality for complexity. | George Alec Effinger |