More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. 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…
  2. 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.
  3. The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
  4. When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself t…
  5. Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
  6. People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the s…
  7. Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
  8. What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

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