Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

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

La mucha lectura nos ha brindado una barbarie ilustrada.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

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.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

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 .

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

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

Если человек пишет, то пишет он хорошо или плохо - видно сразу. Но если человек ничего не пишет и сидит смирно, то делает он это благодаря уму или по невежеству - вот этого не в состоянии распознать ни один смертный.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Man findet Spuren aller Wissenschaften in den Sprachen, und umgekehrt vieles in den Sprachen das in den Wissenschaften nützen kann.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.