More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. There is a great difference between still believing something and again believing it.
  2. We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.
  3. 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…
  4. We must not seek to abstract from the busts of the great Greeks and Romans rules for the visible form of genius as long as we cannot contra…
  5. There are people that can believe everything they want. These are happy creatures.
  6. What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
  7. Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
  8. Why are young widows in mourning so beautiful? (Look into it.)

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