To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — 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
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great… — 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
There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures! — 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
