Famous Quotes / Georg C. Lichtenberg
137 Quotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- 101. The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the a ...
- 102. The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
- 103. The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble short-sightedness ...
- 104. The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by po ...
- 105. The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
- 106. Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
- 107. There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
- 108. There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of th ...
- 109. There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
- 110. There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe ...
- 111. There is a great difference between still believing something and believing it again.
- 112. There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too ...
- 113. There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you ca ...
- 114. There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still hone ...
- 115. To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather -- all that is required is that we bestow on a ...
- 116. To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
- 117. To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
- 118. To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the ...
- 119. To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with whic ...
- 120. To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.