Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.