344 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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

Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

The “second sight” possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don’t wear trousers.