339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.