What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Devil Copy Share Image
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Above the clouds Copy Share Image
I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dog Copy Share Image
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Awakens Copy Share Image
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Desire Copy Share Image
Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Action Copy Share Image
One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Battle Copy Share Image
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Free spirit Copy Share Image
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Discoveries Copy Share Image
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Acquaintance Copy Share Image
