Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: prejudice prejudices
The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: excuses
To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: vows
To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: imitation
Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: distrust strength-of-mind
Reading means borrowing. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
Georg Christoph LichtenbergThere is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: books
Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstoßen und es klingt hohl, ist das allemal im Buch?
Georg Christoph LichtenbergНай-опасната лъжа е леко изпопачената истина.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: лъжа
Има хора, които си въобразяват, че всичко, което се прави със сериозен вид, е разумно.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTags: дела
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