Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

2. Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

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

4. ...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

5. Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance? Dieses Und Jenes: Aufsätze Und Aphorismen

6. If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

7. Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

8. Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

9. Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.