We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
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 — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
