137 Quotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- 21. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t ...
![Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 22. Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience -- if only the damage of the first ...
![Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience -- if only the damage of the first .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 23. First we have to believe, and then we believe.
![First we have to believe, and then we believe.. Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 24. Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible infl ...
![Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible infl .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 25. God creates the animals, man creates himself.
![God creates the animals, man creates himself.. Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 26. Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of re ...
![Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of re .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 27. He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
![He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.. Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 28. He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
![He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.. Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 29. He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to dis ...
![He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to dis .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 30. He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals ...
![He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 31. He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
![He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.. Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 32. He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve ...
![He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 33. Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush ...
![Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 34. I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
![I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.. Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 35. I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himse ...
![I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himse .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 36. I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when ...
![I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 37. Ideas too are a life and a world.
![Ideas too are a life and a world.. Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 38. If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which ...
![If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 39. If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
![If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.. Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
- 40. If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound ...
![If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound .... Georg C. Lichtenberg.](/img/view.gif)
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