339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

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.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

As nations improve, so do their gods.