Philosophy Quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“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.”

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

“When you can't get what you want, get what you need”

“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective.”

“God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.”

“God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.”

“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”

“Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.”