You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange. Georg C. Lichtenberg More Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg More Quotes From Georg C. Lichtenberg What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. Georg C. Lichtenberg weakness nature humans We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. Georg C. Lichtenberg awe vision remember Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg real wisdom years The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. Georg C. Lichtenberg philosophical inspirational philosophy Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable. Georg C. Lichtenberg study enough philosophy A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch. Georg C. Lichtenberg dutch horse donkey With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. Georg C. Lichtenberg prophet important men Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. Georg C. Lichtenberg library wide soul First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. Georg C. Lichtenberg littles giving believe There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. Georg C. Lichtenberg doe people thinking He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were. Georg C. Lichtenberg cat cutting eye What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises. Georg C. Lichtenberg mind math needs Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls. Georg C. Lichtenberg twenties light science It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. Georg C. Lichtenberg library cases humans Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing. Georg C. Lichtenberg accounts all-things science As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown. Georg C. Lichtenberg let-it-go everyday pennies Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. Georg C. Lichtenberg foliage fruit produce Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason. Georg C. Lichtenberg pain exercise needs People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things. Georg C. Lichtenberg independent discovery people With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain. Georg C. Lichtenberg pain color may
