339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

The great rule: 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.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.