The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — 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
