Georg Chrietoph Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist Quotes
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing press.
A man is never more serious than when he praises himself.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy -- at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience -- if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are constructed.
God creates the animals, man creates himself.
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
Once we know our weaknesses, they cease to do us any harm.
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there, we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.