That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blessing Copy Share Image
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Change Copy Share Image
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Deeds Copy Share Image
Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Agreement Copy Share Image
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Art Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advantage Copy Share Image
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put… — 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 Advice Copy Share Image
Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious… I have always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Acquaintance Copy Share Image
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Attention Copy Share Image
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Apothecary 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
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Men Copy Share Image
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Damage Copy Share Image
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Children Copy Share Image
With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Abstract Copy Share Image
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Education Copy Share Image
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Creation Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Applause 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 Body Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Abstract Copy Share Image
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Art Copy Share Image
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to… — 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
The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Devil Copy Share Image
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Clever Copy Share Image
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Failure Copy Share Image
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Applause Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Human nature Copy Share Image
