More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
  2. There can hardly be stranger wares in the world than books: printed by people who do not understand them; sold by people who do not underst…
  3. The preaching in the churches does not make the lightning rods on them unnecessary.
  4. There is a great difference between still believing something and again believing it.
  5. The late M. who had a Catholic maid, once told me entirely bona fide: This person is a Catholic, it is true, but she is an honest, good sou…
  6. Those who never have time do least.
  7. The intercourse with reasonable people is advisable to everybody because, in this way, a blockhead can become wise by imitation, for the gr…
  8. We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.

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