Georg Lichtenberg

" I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths.

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.