Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

It is impossible to cross a crowd with the flame of truth without burning someone's beard.

Nothing ages us faster than constantly thinking about getting old.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Grant your spirit the habit of doubt, and your heart the habit of tolerance.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Marriage, unlike a fever, begins with warmth and ends with cold.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Don't let yourself be influenced, don't give any opinion as your own before seeing if it suits you, better form your own opinion.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

English translation: The sculpted saints have exerted much greater influence in the world than the living ones.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

No fame and rest do not go together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Everyone admits that the obscene stories one writes oneself are far from having as dangerous an effect as those written by others.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

At least once a year, everyone is a genius.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nothing reveals men's character better than a joke taken in the wrong way.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Trying to change a man's character is like trying to teach a sheep to pull a cart.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg