Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

You can make a good living from soothsaying, but not from truthsaying. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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