Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
Born: Jul 1, 1742
Died: Feb 24, 1799
Man Many Nature Nothing Own People
Related authors: Albrecht Kossel Heinrich Schliemann Johannes Kepler Max Planck Polykarp Kusch Sebastian Thrun Wernher von Braun Wilhelm Ostwald
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Change Better Will Say Must Get Cannot Whether Things
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man Only Small Candle Burning Loves Company Even
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sickness Greatest Mankind Defect
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. Georg C. Lichtenberg
God Bible Man Own Philosophers Says Reverse His Process Create Created Image
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Our Once Weaknesses Know Cease Any Us Harm
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Filthy Our Would About Seem Obscene Nobility Idea Heads Did Us Bodies Many Things
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man Will Free Free Will Creation Other Evidence Determinism Weight He Masterpiece Than Notwithstanding Reason Believes
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Book Mirror Out Look Likely Looks Ape Apostle Hardly
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? Georg C. Lichtenberg
Good Experience Sometimes Draw Drawing Wrong Conclusions Deny Often Just Right
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Dangerous Become Doubt Otherwise Must More Than Vigilance
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Law Abolish Aristocracy How Any Cannot Acquire Decree Who Actual
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Truth Needs Age Brainy Clad New New Age Appeal Even Garments
Men still have to be governed by deception. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Men Still Governed Deception
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man Long Every Unless Backside Possible Moral Trousers He Covered His Which Decorum Showing Keeps Every Man
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time History Dark Will Thought Own Our Dark Ages Perhaps So-Called Ages Including
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Wisdom Wise Words Stupid No Words He Understands Speaking Who
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. Georg C. Lichtenberg
You Better Build Air Something Castles Houses Always Than Going Cards
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Character Man Nothing Else Recognized He Badly Takes Fails Surely Which Jest
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man Free Believe Resort He Himself Contested His Being Cannot Believes Right Last
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Speak Men Difficult Think Resolving Too Would Find Point Through Instincts Without Effort Any Them Prejudices Many Mechanical Things
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Progress Too See Impediment Take Greater Sciences Quickly Than Place Desire
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Imitation Something Namely Also Opposite Form
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Worth Virtue Much Premeditation
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age Understanding Our Weakest Opinions Accumulate
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Crazy Clever Become Our Minds Obliged Until Least Regard Many Original
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Fall Makes Question Error Bumped Child Hits Wheel Break Whether Chair
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