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How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ideas too are a life and a world.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Too much is unwholesome.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Everything that matters in life flows through tubes.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears ... as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man is a masterpiece of creation ...
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ambition and suspicion always go together.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
They do not think, therefore they are not.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
