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
The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 Copy Share Image
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. — 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
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
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would… — 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
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? — 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
Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men. — 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
