12 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Belief

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on belief

64. There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

68. The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

81. The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

89. Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

94. Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

108. First we have to believe, and then we believe.

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119. With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

126. First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

127. God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

139. Not only did he not believe in ghosts, he wasn't even afraid of them.

156. There are people that can believe everything they want. These are happy creatures.

158. There is a great difference between still believing something and again believing it.