Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Destiny Copy Share Image
Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Heart Copy Share Image
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Adversity Copy Share Image
Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Freedom Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blind Copy Share Image
How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. — 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 Bible Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Burden Copy Share Image
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Class Copy Share Image
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — 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
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." — Georg C. Lichtenberg Doubt Copy Share Image
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advantage Copy Share Image
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
