Georg C Lichtenberg quotes

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

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

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

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

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

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

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.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

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

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

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