Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Siempre he procurado imponerme leyes que sólo entren en vigor cuando me sea casi imposible violarlas.

That there are a hundred with wit for one with understanding is a true proposition with which many witless Dummkopf consoles himself.The Dummkopf should also reflect that there also a hundred possessing neither wit nor understanding for every man possessing wit .

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally chosen diversions such as will not cause our heart to reproach us.

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

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?

Imaginas que yo persigo lo extraño por ignorancia de lo bello, pero no es así, ocurre que porque tu ignoras lo bello, yo busco lo extraño.

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.