If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: philosophy independence
It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: taste bad-taste no-taste
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 LichtenbergTags: god eternity genius posterity
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergDon't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: judge opinions judgement judging
You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying
Georg Christoph LichtenbergYou believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergJust as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.
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 LichtenbergTags: truth philosophy
Când ai de facut o lucrare, nu te gândi mereu la întregimea ei; executa fragmentul pe care-l ai în fata, si când ai terminat cu el, mergi mai departe
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