G C Lichtenberg

G C Lichtenberg: Astronomy is perhaps...

G C Lichtenberg: Astronomy is perhaps...

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its...

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G C Lichtenberg: Good taste is...

G C Lichtenberg: Good taste is...

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this...

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G C Lichtenberg: Even truth needs...

G C Lichtenberg: Even truth needs...

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

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G C Lichtenberg: If moderation is...

G C Lichtenberg: If moderation is...

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Source: In Webster's...

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G C Lichtenberg: He who says...

G C Lichtenberg: He who says...

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of...

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G C Lichtenberg: Do we write...

G C Lichtenberg: Do we write...

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For...

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G C Lichtenberg: Honest, unaffected distrust...

G C Lichtenberg: Honest, unaffected distrust...

Honest, unaffected distrust of the powers of man is the surest sign of intelligence.

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G C Lichtenberg: Food probably has...

G C Lichtenberg: Food probably has...

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does...

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G C Lichtenberg: If people should...

G C Lichtenberg: If people should...

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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G C Lichtenberg: I am convinced...

G C Lichtenberg: I am convinced...

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

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G C Lichtenberg: In each of...

G C Lichtenberg: In each of...

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Source: In

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G C Lichtenberg: I believe that...

G C Lichtenberg: I believe that...

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be...

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G C Lichtenberg: God created man...

G C Lichtenberg: God created man...

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

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G C Lichtenberg: If there were...

G C Lichtenberg: If there were...

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong...

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G C Lichtenberg: If all else...

G C Lichtenberg: If all else...

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes...

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G C Lichtenberg: It is a...

G C Lichtenberg: It is a...

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it...

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G C Lichtenberg: I have clearly...

G C Lichtenberg: I have clearly...

I have clearly noticed that often I have one opinion when I lie down and another one when I stand up, especially when...

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G C Lichtenberg: He was then...

G C Lichtenberg: He was then...

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace...

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G C Lichtenberg: In the world...

G C Lichtenberg: In the world...

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

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G C Lichtenberg: If all mankind...

G C Lichtenberg: If all mankind...

If all mankind were to suddenly practice honesty, thousands of people would be sure to...

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