More quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones."