Top 75 Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

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.

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.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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

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.