Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quotes

• “Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is...”
• “...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reape...”
• “Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a...”
• “If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”
• “When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.”