The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 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
