Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Doubt everything at least once, even the proposition that two times two equals four.

A golden rule: we must judge men, not by their opinions, but by what their opinions make of them.

Once he has stolen his 100, 100 thalers a rogue can walk through the world an honest man.

It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone’s beard.

What they call ‘heart’ lies much lower than the fourth waistcoat button.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals13.

Every man also has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.