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
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bird Copy Share Image
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bearing fruit Copy Share Image
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advantage Copy Share Image
The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Art 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
Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Agreement Copy Share Image
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Deeds Copy Share Image
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Art Copy Share Image
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
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
There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
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 Copy Share Image
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advantage Copy Share Image
To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
