How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Happiness Copy Share Image
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Battle Copy Share Image
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Action Copy Share Image
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Free spirit Copy Share Image
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Discoveries Copy Share Image
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Above the clouds Copy Share Image
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Desire Copy Share Image
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Awakens Copy Share Image
I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dog Copy Share Image
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Habit Copy Share Image
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Actor Copy Share Image
Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Astronomy Copy Share Image
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Nature Copy Share Image
A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift… — 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
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 proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Ability Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it. — 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
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Construction Copy Share Image
It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
