344 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.