344 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time’s quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people’s business as about their own.

Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.