"En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos que no son sino iniciales de otras" - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Varias veces he sido censurado por faltas que mi censor no tuvo el ingenio o la energía de cometer.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. … To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

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.