~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

[MysteRy]

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything; one's last is to come to terms with everything.

[MysteRy]

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

[MysteRy]

Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

[MysteRy]

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.

[MysteRy]

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet but because most people can't count above fourteen.

[MysteRy]

The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.