Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

That there are a hundred with wit for one with understanding is a true proposition with which many witless Dummkopf consoles himself.The Dummkopf should also reflect that there also a hundred possessing neither wit nor understanding for every man possessing wit .

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

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

¿Es nuestro concepto de Dios algo más que una personificación de lo incomprensible?

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Ако главата и книгата се сблъскат и се чуе звук на празно тяло, винаги ли е виновна книгата?

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Когато една книга ти се харесва все повече с течение на годините, това е верен признак, че тя е добра.

Bei den meisten Menschen gründet sich der unglaube in einer Sache auf blinden Glauben in einer anderen.