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Famous Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
“He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.”
“Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.”
“Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.”
“Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."”
“Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.”
“There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.”
“The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.”
“Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.”
“In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.”
“With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.”
“A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.”
“Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.”
“The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.”
“You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.”
“To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.”
“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?”