344 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don’t deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don’t we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.