If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — 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
One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable. — 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
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could… — 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
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
