Famous Quotes / Georg C. Lichtenberg
137 Quotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- 121. To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance toward a perfec ...
- 122. Too much is unwholesome.
- 123. Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
- 124. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
- 125. We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy -- at least until we have become as cle ...
- 126. We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; o ...
- 127. We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it ...
- 128. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
- 129. We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innoc ...
- 130. We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies ...
- 131. What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of ju ...
- 132. What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesse ...
- 133. What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right co ...
- 134. What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
- 135. With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex ...
- 136. With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
- 137. With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.