Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Fool Copy Share Image
Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Heart Copy Share Image
The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Earth Copy Share Image
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Destiny 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
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Creation Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Applause Copy Share Image
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
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Education Copy Share Image
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Children Copy Share Image
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Abstract Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Achievement Copy Share Image
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 Copy Share Image
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Aliens 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 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
If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advantage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Beautiful Copy Share Image
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." — Georg C. Lichtenberg Doubt 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
Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Argument Copy Share Image
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
