339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.