344 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

It requires no especially great talent to write in such a way that another will be very hard put to it to understand what you have written.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things.

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.