If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dreams Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blind Copy Share Image
Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Delectable Copy Share Image
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 Copy Share Image
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Death Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Demonstration Copy Share Image
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Children Copy Share Image
There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Exercise Copy Share Image
The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Better man Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Beauty Copy Share Image
We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Nature Copy Share Image
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bread Copy Share Image
Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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 Copy Share Image
Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Ability Copy Share Image
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
