339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.