Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

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

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

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

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.