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| G. C. LICHTENBERG |
| (1742-1799) |
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| person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. 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. One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. Some people read because they are too lazy to think. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. You can make a better living in the world as a soothsayer than as a truthsayer. |