7 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Criticism

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on criticism

26. The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

45. Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

50. The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

51. If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

151. The highest point a poor brain can reach from experience is the ability to find out the weaknesses of superior people.

157. There can hardly be stranger wares in the world than books: printed by people who do not understand them; sold by people who do not understand them; bound, reviewed and read by people who do not understand them; and now even written by people who do not understand them.

171. Book review: Aphorisms by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg