Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would… — 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
What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people… — 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
