344 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one’s debts.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

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

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

Barbaric accuracy – whimpering humility.

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.