I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Opinion Copy Share Image
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Books 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
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character 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
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Art 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 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
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Apothecary Copy Share Image
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Attention Copy Share Image
A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Advice Copy Share Image
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Humor Copy Share Image
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? — Georg C. Lichtenberg God Copy Share Image
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Courage Copy Share Image
A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One has to do something new in order to see something new. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dark Copy Share Image
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Belief Copy Share Image
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Honor Copy Share Image
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Conviction Copy Share Image
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
