More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.
  2. One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
  3. My inquiries into physics could perhaps be given the title: legacies. For people do also bequeath trifles, after all.
  4. One of the main conveniences of marriage is that if you can't stand a visitor, you can pass him along to your wife.
  5. My head lies at least a foot closer to my heart than is the case with other men: that is why I am so reasonable.
  6. One of the strangest applications of reason is to believe that it is a masterpiece to abstain from using it and thus, born with wings, to c…
  7. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.
  8. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

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