If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Hunger Copy Share Image
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Great things Copy Share Image
He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Cat Copy Share Image
We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bread Copy Share Image
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I… — 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 rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Devil 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Deeds Copy Share Image
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Greatness Copy Share Image
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Mind Copy Share Image
As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blind Copy Share Image
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Greatness Copy Share Image
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Employment Copy Share Image
Some people read only because they are too lazy to think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Books Copy Share Image
Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Heaven Copy Share Image
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Books Copy Share Image
