Quotes By Author: 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.”

“Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.”

“It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.”

“What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.”

“…if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.”

“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”

“When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.”