Me parece imposible demostrar que somos la obra de un ser superior y no el pasatiempo de uno bastante defectuoso. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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 .

Sometimes we know a person better than we can say, or at least than we do say.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.