Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

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