“One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.” WorldTruthThis World Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.” MenWorldNeedsDoeRealDiesHeavenTalentReal Talent Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?” MenWorldShouldGatesUnjust Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.” MenWorldSoulMomentsBodyCommonThat Moment Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.” WorldLittlesCausesLength Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.” MenWorldWayShouldLittlesStillsUsePoorWonder Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWritingInterestOughtMy FriendsConcernPrintedMe Alone Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.” PeopleWorldBookWrittenBoundsStrangerCommodityPrinted Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.” WorldLittlesWishAdviceJudgingFlowerGardenWindowPlantPatternsBoxesDo Not Judge Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.” IfsWorldWayGrowsFoodPlantComplainingCulinaryPotatoesWrong WayTurnips Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.” WorldHappensChanceMistakeEventsIntentionUndertakingsGood Mistake Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.” PeopleWorldImportantDifferent Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.” IfsWorldScienceCertainLeftImagineExampleMembersDiscoveryMethodBehaveIronAbsent Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.” WorldLooksLightScienceFourImagineBallsTwentiesPoundsParticlesCannons Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.” WorldShouldBookForbiddenCatalogues Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.” WorldFoolSage Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
