One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 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
A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands. — 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
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. — 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. — 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 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
