Top 75 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.