More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
  2. You must not allow your reading to dominate you but you should dominate your reading.
  3. 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…
  4. We may use Lichtenberg's writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden.
  5. We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.
  6. He is not a household name. He is something rarer: a name savored by household names.
  7. Those who never have time do least.
  8. Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone... He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.

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