If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Hunger 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… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Assembly 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… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blind 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… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Annoying Copy Share Image
Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Heaven Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Misused 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… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Burden 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… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Asks 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… — Georg C. Lichtenberg All kinds Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Inspirational 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… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Acquire Copy Share Image
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 Believe Copy Share Image
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Hands Copy Share Image
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dust Copy Share Image
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Arise Copy Share Image
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Astute Copy Share Image
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Change Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Beauty Copy Share Image
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Chill 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 Book Copy Share Image
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Filthy Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Anticipation Copy Share Image
One has to do something new in order to see something new. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
