More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. 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…
  2. Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
  3. 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…
  4. Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
  5. Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
  6. The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and t…
  7. Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
  8. Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

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