Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Astronomy Copy Share Image
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Nature Copy Share Image
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Habit Copy Share Image
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Actor Copy Share Image
Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Grateful Copy Share Image
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Angel Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Imagination Copy Share Image
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Blind Copy Share Image
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Construction Copy Share Image
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Belief Copy Share Image
It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Applause Copy Share Image
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Failure Copy Share Image
How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Happiness Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Human nature Copy Share Image
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Clever Copy Share Image
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
