Famous Quotes / Georg C. Lichtenberg
137 Quotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- 61. Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n ...
- 62. Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de ...
- 63. Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
- 64. Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
- 65. Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
- 66. Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
- 67. Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea ...
- 68. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when t ...
- 69. Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams ...
- 70. Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
- 71. Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
- 72. Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
- 73. Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
- 74. Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ...
- 75. Once we know our weaknesses, they cease to do us any harm.
- 76. One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole t ...
- 77. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderl ...
- 78. One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but ...
- 79. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything; one's last is to come to terms with everything ...
- 80. People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit ...