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.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.