339 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.