Georg C. Lichtenberg

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the…

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all…

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made…

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part…

God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they…

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to…

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever…

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of…

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their…

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s…

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do…

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his…

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough…

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are…

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of…