7 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Religion

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on religion

3. It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

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.

114. Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

121. As nations improve, so do their gods.

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

131. If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

149. The expression divine service should cease to be applied to church attendance and be applied instead to good deeds.