344 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Everyone has a moral backside, which he won't show unless he has to, keeping it covered as long as possible with the pants of respectability.

The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Hour-glasses remind us, not only of how time flies, but at the same time of the dust into which we shall one day decay.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

I can't say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.