339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.