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

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

“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.”

“They can very well try to find each other; they will never find anything but parodic images, and they will fall asleep as empty as mirrors.”

“What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?”

“When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement”

“Electrons, when they were first discovered, behaved exactly like particles or bullets, very simply. Further research showed, from electron diffraction experiments for example, that they behaved like waves. As time went on there was a growing confusion about how these things really behaved ---- waves or particles, particles or waves? Everything looked like both.”

“[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.”