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Famous Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
“Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.”
“The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.”
“The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.”
“Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.”
“If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.”
“To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.”
“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”
“He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.”
“A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.”
“If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.”
“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”
“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”
“He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.”
“A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.”
“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”
“Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.”