Georg C. Lichtenberg

Quotes

• “What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't...”
• “The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthen...”
• “The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot...”
• “We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves ...”
• “It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repo...”
• “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”
• “One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.”
• “Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”
• “Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.”
• “Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”