Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg C. Lichtenberg Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.
If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
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.
Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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.
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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.
One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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.
He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears ... as easily as we open and shut our eyes.