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All Quotes by author - Georg C. Lichtenberg

" Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. "

" Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. "

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

" Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. "

" Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. "

" He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. "

" I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. "

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

" If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. "

" It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. "

" Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones. "

" Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. "

" Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. "

" Men still have to be governed by deception. "

" Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. "

" Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. "

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

" Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. "

" Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. "

" The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. "

" The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. "

" There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. "

" There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. "

" To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. "

" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "

" When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. "

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