339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.