Quotes by : G. C. Lichtenberg

The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless....

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede....

With most people doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long....

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.