I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Great things Copy Share Image
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Education Copy Share Image
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Hunger Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg People Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 Copy Share Image
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bible Copy Share Image
Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Greatness Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character 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
We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious… I have always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book 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 Copy Share Image
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 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
It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Greatness Copy Share Image
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Some people read only because they are too lazy to think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Books Copy Share Image
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Employment Copy Share Image
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Greatness Copy Share Image
As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blind Copy Share Image
Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Heaven Copy Share Image
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Greatness Copy Share Image
There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Mind Copy Share Image
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
