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 Conditions Copy Share Image
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Impartiality Copy Share Image
Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Action Copy Share Image
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Courage Copy Share Image
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Important Copy Share Image
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Believe Copy Share Image
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Clockwork Copy Share Image
The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Every girl Copy Share Image
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Able Copy Share Image
What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Able 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 Average 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 Above the clouds Copy Share Image
A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Behave 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 Brain Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Certain Copy Share Image
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Feels Copy Share Image
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dangerous Copy Share Image
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Change 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 Agree Copy Share Image
