Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

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

I believe that some of the greatest minds that ever lived had not read half as much and did not know nearly as much as some of our mediocre scholars. And some 20 of our verr mediocre scholars could have become greater men if they had not read so much.

Is our conception of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstoßen und es klingt hohl, ist das allemal im Buch?

La doctrina de la libertad humana sólo prueba que una hipotésis errónea es a veces preferible a otra exacta. El hombre, por cierto, no es libre: pero hace falta haber estudado filosofia muy profundamente para que una concepción de esta naturaleza no nos llame a engaño. Pero éste es un estudio para el cual dispone de tiempo y paciencia sólo un hombre entre mil, y entre los cientos que cuentam com tiempo y paciencia, sólo habrá uno, quizás, que comprenda el sentido de la cosa. Y como las aparencias le son favorables a la doctrina de la libertad, ésta es la más corriente, por ser la más cómoda, y así seguirá siendo en el futuro.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

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

Каквито са хората, такива са и книгите, които пишат.

Wouldn't things look much better for the human race if we no longer had history, at least no political history? The human being then would act more in accordance with the energies he possesses at any given time; for as things stand today, the example that now and then makes one person better makes a thousand others worse.

Man sollte nie so viel zu tun haben, daß man zum zum Nachdenken keine Zeit mehr hat.

Има хора, които си въобразяват, че всичко, което се прави със сериозен вид, е разумно.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Най-опасната лъжа е леко изпопачената истина.