With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Abstract Copy Share Image
The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Body Copy Share Image
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advantage Copy Share Image
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only… — Georg C. Lichtenberg All things Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Astonishing Copy Share Image
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Faults Copy Share Image
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Despotism Copy Share Image
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Ideas Copy Share Image
Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Animal Copy Share Image
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Astronomy Copy Share Image
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Nature Copy Share Image
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Men Copy Share Image
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Funny Copy Share Image
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Behinds Copy Share Image
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dangerous Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Demonstration Copy Share Image
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Damage Copy Share Image
Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Errors Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Imagination Copy Share Image
A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Adversity Copy Share Image
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Class Copy Share Image
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Educate Copy Share Image
