More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians…
  2. The 'second sight' possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift …
  3. There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
  4. Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
  5. The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned unde…
  6. 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.
  7. First we have to believe, and then we believe.
  8. What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

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