8 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Reading

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on reading

30. When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

44. Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

70. Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

75. There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

147. Some people read because they are too lazy to think.

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.

164. You must not allow your reading to dominate you but you should dominate your reading.

167. Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone... He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.