Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Belief Copy Share Image
I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Grateful Copy Share Image
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blind Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Imagination Copy Share Image
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Angel Copy Share Image
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
