344 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

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.

Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.