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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Appreciation category:
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Books category:
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Books category:
To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Books category:
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Change category:
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Conviction category:
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Genius category:
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Invention category:
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Life category:
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Listening category:
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Memory category:
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Nature category:
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - From the Opposites category:
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
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