Quotes by : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment,....

God creates the animals man creates himself.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly....

Too much is unwholesome.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called....

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

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.