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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

1742 - 1799. German scientist, satirist and philosopher.

1. "When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?"

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

categories: Human

3. "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

source: "Aphorisms"

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Education

4. "Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones."

categories: Manners and Ethics

5. "There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist."

source: "Aphorisms"

categories: God and Religion -:- Manners and Ethics

6. "Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense."

categories: God and Religion

7. "The preaching in the churches does not make the lightning rods on them unnecessary."

categories: God and Religion

8. "The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted."

categories: Truth and Falsity

9. "The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny."

categories: Life and Death -:- Destiny and Fate

10. "The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."

categories: History and Nations

11. "Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."

categories: Health and Alcohol

12. "One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart."

categories: Trust

13. "Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm."

categories: Power and Weakness

14. "Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism."

categories: Education

15. "It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."

categories: Law and Crime

16. "If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."

categories: Various

17. "I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too."

source: "Aphorisms"

categories: Egoism -:- Human

18. "How happy would many people live if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own."

categories: Manners and Ethics

19. "Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?"

categories: Health and Alcohol

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

source: "Aphorisms"

categories: Time and Passing -:- Truth and Falsity

21. "Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit."

source: "Aphorisms"

categories: Education

22. "Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

categories: Intellect, Judgement

23. "An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half."

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Various

24. "A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."

categories: Wit and Humor

25. "A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

categories: Power and Weakness

26. "A book is a mirror: If an ape peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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