“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg“...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg“What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg“It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg