Authors — Quotes

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes: 7

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Sudelbücher.
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.
Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance?
Dieses Und Jenes: Aufsätze Und Aphorismen
Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.
...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.