Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotations | Page 3

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.