More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
  2. 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.
  3. 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…
  4. 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…
  5. 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…
  6. Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
  7. Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
  8. That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

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