Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blame Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advice Copy Share Image
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Certain Copy Share Image
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blessing Copy Share Image
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Convinced Copy Share Image
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg All things Copy Share Image
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Knows Copy Share Image
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Cautiousness Copy Share Image
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Failure Copy Share Image
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Etc Copy Share Image
What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Devil Copy Share Image
He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Cat Copy Share Image
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Doe Copy Share Image
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blame Copy Share Image
How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Freedom Copy Share Image
Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Deeds Copy Share Image
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Complaining Copy Share Image
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Greater Copy Share Image
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Fool Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Incapacity Copy Share Image
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Accounts Copy Share Image
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Devil Copy Share Image
