Notebook F #31
Experience, not reading or listening, is the thing. It is not a matter of indifference whether an idea enters the soul through the eye or through the ear.
#99
I believe it is much better to draw forth out of ourselves than out of Plato: we can misunderstand Plato, but we are at all times close enough to ourselves to assuage all difficulties and illumine all that is obscure.
#101
If reason, the daughter fo Heaven, were allowed to be the judge of beauty, only sickness would be ugly.
Notebook C #50
Do you perhaps believe that your convictions owe their strength to arguements? Then you are certainly wrong, for otherwise everyone who hears them would have to be as convinced as you are... One can be deluded in favour of a proposition as well as against it. Reasons are often and for the most part only expositions of pretensions designed to give a colouring of legitimacy and rationality to something we would have done in any case...
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, my favorite hunchback
Experience, not reading or listening, is the thing. It is not a matter of indifference whether an idea enters the soul through the eye or through the ear.
#99
I believe it is much better to draw forth out of ourselves than out of Plato: we can misunderstand Plato, but we are at all times close enough to ourselves to assuage all difficulties and illumine all that is obscure.
#101
If reason, the daughter fo Heaven, were allowed to be the judge of beauty, only sickness would be ugly.
Notebook C #50
Do you perhaps believe that your convictions owe their strength to arguements? Then you are certainly wrong, for otherwise everyone who hears them would have to be as convinced as you are... One can be deluded in favour of a proposition as well as against it. Reasons are often and for the most part only expositions of pretensions designed to give a colouring of legitimacy and rationality to something we would have done in any case...
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, my favorite hunchback
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i just have to make it a few more hours, then i get to go to work, and then i get to have the next three days off.
the only thing the holidays are good for--extra days off.
remember what we promised about not being creepy?