More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. 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…
  2. That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
  3. 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.
  4. What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read…
  5. Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
  6. When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
  7. If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
  8. There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, befor…

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