339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

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.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

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

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.