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  1. The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.115 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

  2. The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.115 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

  3. The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.115 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

  4. To write with sensibility requires more than tears and moonlight. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.23 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  5. To write with sensibility requires more than tears and moonlight. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.23 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  6. To write with sensibility requires more than tears and moonlight. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.23 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  7. The thought still has too much elbow-room in the expression; I have pointed with the end of a stick when I should have pointed with the point of a needle. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.18 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation

  8. The thought still has too much elbow-room in the expression; I have pointed with the end of a stick when I should have pointed with the point of a needle. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.18 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation

  9. The thought still has too much elbow-room in the expression; I have pointed with the end of a stick when I should have pointed with the point of a needle. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.18 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation

  10. Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  11. Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  12. Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  13. Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

  14. Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

  15. Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

  16. If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  17. If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  18. If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  19. People, if we have survived Cats and Mama Mia! and any number of Michael Bay movies, the impact of any dreck that you create is unlikely to be statistically significant. So make your thing anyway. #Lichtenbergianism #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #Blogquotes

  20. Pro tip: If a strategy raises more questions than it answers, that’s a good thing. It means you are finding doors that you didn’t know existed before. #Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism #blogquotes

  21. Pro tip: If a strategy raises more questions than it answers, that’s a good thing. It means you are finding doors that you didn’t know existed before. #Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism #blogquotes

  22. Pro tip: If a strategy raises more questions than it answers, that’s a good thing. It means you are finding doors that you didn’t know existed before. #Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism #blogquotes

  23. Pro tip: If a strategy raises more questions than it answers, that’s a good thing. It means you are finding doors that you didn’t know existed before. #Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism #blogquotes

  24. Pro tip: If a strategy raises more questions than it answers, that’s a good thing. It means you are finding doors that you didn’t know existed before. #Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism #blogquotes

  25. To seek to see in everything something no one has yet seen and no one has yet thought of. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.246 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

  26. To seek to see in everything something no one has yet seen and no one has yet thought of. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.246 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

  27. To seek to see in everything something no one has yet seen and no one has yet thought of. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.246 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

  28. #Gestalt is German for ‘shape,’ and it has come to mean in English ‘the shape or sense of the whole.’ In #Lichtenbergianism, it is the process of stepping back from your #AbortiveAttempt and looking to see what’s missing. (p. 46)

  29. #Gestalt is German for ‘shape,’ and it has come to mean in English ‘the shape or sense of the whole.’ In #Lichtenbergianism, it is the process of stepping back from your #AbortiveAttempt and looking to see what’s missing. (p. 46)

  30. #Gestalt is German for ‘shape,’ and it has come to mean in English ‘the shape or sense of the whole.’ In #Lichtenbergianism, it is the process of stepping back from your #AbortiveAttempt and looking to see what’s missing. (p. 46)

  31. #Gestalt is German for ‘shape,’ and it has come to mean in English ‘the shape or sense of the whole.’ In #Lichtenbergianism, it is the process of stepping back from your #AbortiveAttempt and looking to see what’s missing. (p. 46)

  32. #Gestalt is German for ‘shape,’ and it has come to mean in English ‘the shape or sense of the whole.’ In #Lichtenbergianism, it is the process of stepping back from your #AbortiveAttempt and looking to see what’s missing. (p. 46)

  33. "We are all creative.
    Creativity is not genius.
    Beware the impostor syndrome.
    Make the thing that is not." (p. 8) #Lichtenbergianism

  34. Whisper, immortal muse, of the insanity of the great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.13 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  35. Whisper, immortal muse, of the insanity of the great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.13 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  36. Whisper, immortal muse, of the insanity of the great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.13 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

  37. I have jotted down a host of little thoughts and sketches, but they are awaiting not so much a final revision as a few more glimpses of the sun that will make them blossom. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook B.55 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks