If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many mor... - 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."

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

"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."

"When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands."

"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."