Quotes Georg C. Lichtenberg

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is ha...

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of ar...

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the ...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the l...

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something ...

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure sys...

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can becom...

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit....

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appe...

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from show...

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses...

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophe...

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advanta...

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -...

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in ...

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back in...

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but h...

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being tha...

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; wh...

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized ...

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary mil...

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at ...

If you are going to build something in the air it is always ...

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wh...

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begot...