“Ideas too are a life and a world.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.”
“In each of us there is a little of all of us.”
“First we have to believe, and then we believe.”
“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”
“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”
“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”
“A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.”
“Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.”
“The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.”
“Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.”
“Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.”
“Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.”
“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”
“Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.”
“A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.”
“A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.”
“People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.”
“Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”
“Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.”
“The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.”
“We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.”
“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”
“With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.”
“If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.”
“A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.”
“The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.”
“He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.”