Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Truth Quotes

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. -
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Happiness Quotes

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. -
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Hope Quotes

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. -
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Truth Quotes

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. -
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

God Quotes

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. -
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Truth Quotes

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands. -
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg