“How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.” Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
“No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.” PeopleIfsLittlesFeelingsHappensCommandOccasionsProseConceited Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.” IfsMenAgreementPropositions Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.” LittlesFeelingsAbleJudgingPrejudice 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
“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.” IfsWould BeStrangeEqualAll ThingsUniversalMiraculous Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.” CentreFrontiers 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
“Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?” WantSides Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.” WritingLiteratureFieldsResearchAccusedAnthropology Author:Clifford Geertz
“He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.” KnowsMenReflection Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg