More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
  2. Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth wa…
  3. Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and th…
  4. The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real th…
  5. What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and wh…
  6. If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
  7. We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble…
  8. Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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