Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

Siempre he procurado imponerme leyes que sólo entren en vigor cuando me sea casi imposible violarlas.

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

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

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

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

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

In the weak, lack of strength to defend oneself passes over into complaining. This can be observed in children when they are mistreated by bigger children; but the best always stay obstinately and defiantly silent.

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

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Aquello tuvo el efecto que por lo general tienen los buenos libros. Hizo más tontos a los tontos, más listos a los listos y los miles restantes quedaron ilesos.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.