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....

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

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

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.