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Famous Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
“What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.”
“Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?”
“He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.”
“A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.”
“It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.”
“A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers”
“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”
“Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?”
“The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.”
“Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.”
“Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.”
“Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.”
“The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.”