Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Sin duda la primera sátira fue hecha por venganza. Utilizarla para el mejoramiento del prójimo, contra los vicios y no contra los viciosos, es ya un pensamiento domesticado, enfriado, deglutido.

No es que los oráculos hayan dejado de hablar, sino que los hombres han dejado de escucharlos.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

Varias veces he sido censurado por faltas que mi censor no tuvo el ingenio o la energía de cometer.

It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.

"Думата "трудност" не трябва да съществува за творческия ум. Долу тази дума!"

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Книгата е огледало. И ако в него се огледа маймуна, то от него не може да погледне лик на апостол.

No trates de mostrarte excesivamente ingenioso para evitar que un hombre por naturaleza ingenioso perciba por casualidad que en realidad eres exactamente como quisieras que él fuera.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.