A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. Georg C. Lichtenberg More Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg More Quotes From Georg C. Lichtenberg The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin. Georg C. Lichtenberg speaks-outdevillatin The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries. Georg C. Lichtenberg womengirlsex The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face. Georg C. Lichtenberg surfaceearthfaces The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud. Georg C. Lichtenberg excellentexcusewant A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it! Georg C. Lichtenberg spiritmenthinking If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. Georg C. Lichtenberg philosophermindphilosophy To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them. Georg C. Lichtenberg knowswriting Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere. Georg C. Lichtenberg devilmiraclepeople I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind. Georg C. Lichtenberg greatermindforget It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them. Georg C. Lichtenberg our-wordssmelltools There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. Georg C. Lichtenberg identitybelievepeople That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. Georg C. Lichtenberg naturehumanitymen As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word. Georg C. Lichtenberg writingbookart Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers. Georg C. Lichtenberg teachingeducationteacher People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. Georg C. Lichtenberg winterlyinghands Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. Georg C. Lichtenberg common-sensebookreligion A man is never more serious than when he praise himself. Georg C. Lichtenberg seriouspraisemen We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. Georg C. Lichtenberg philosophyprofoundscience Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. Georg C. Lichtenberg impartialityneutralitymen Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. Georg C. Lichtenberg nobilitybodyideas
