Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.
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1. I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2. The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
3. Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
4. A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
5. The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
6. There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
7. A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
8. The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
9. Man…who lives in three places, in the past, in the present, and in the future, can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless.
Religion has even added a fourth eternity. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
10. When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
11. Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
12. I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten,
but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
13. There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
15. Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
16. One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything and one’s last is to come to terms with everything. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
17. It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
18. The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
19. A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to peer out. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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20. Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
21. You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no,
it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange. ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
