Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Opinion Copy Share Image
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book 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
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Clockwork Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Argument Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Exercise Copy Share Image
The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Better man Copy Share Image
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advantage 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
There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Children Copy Share Image
The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Death Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Demonstration Copy Share Image
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. — 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 Advice Copy Share Image
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dark Copy Share Image
One has to do something new in order to see something new. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Belief Copy Share Image
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Conviction Copy Share Image
Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Honor Copy Share Image
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Change Copy Share Image
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? — Georg C. Lichtenberg God Copy Share Image
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Humor Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Courage Copy Share Image
