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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
By G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg