Books Quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“The most brightly colored birds sing the worst; the same goes for people.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to…

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for…

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“In his Comedy , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such…

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg