Georg C. Lichtenberg Mean Quotations

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

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.

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.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Reading means borrowing.

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.