Georg C Lichtenberg quotes - Page : 2

" I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. " # People, Other # Love # Hatred

" He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. " # Wisdom # Love # Death and Dying

" A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. " # Literature

" There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. " # Books - Reading

" Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. " # Faults

" We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms. " # Faces # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading

" The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. " # Journalism and Journalists # Painters and Painting # Fame

" The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect. " # Science and Scientists # Critics and Criticism # Progress

" Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste. " # Taste # Reason # Law and Lawyers

" 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. " # Thoughts and Thinking # Love # Freedom