If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 Copy Share Image
If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older. — 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 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
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. — 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
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.… — 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
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 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
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
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
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 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
There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 Copy Share Image
How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own. — 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 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
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — 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 faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
