More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
  2. The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
  3. Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity…
  4. What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often d…
  5. There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from…
  6. Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
  7. If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.... Just as we hit water when we…
  8. Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

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