Georg C. Lichtenberg

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#judge #made #must #opinions #their

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#elephants #find #judgment #many #obscure

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#candle #company #even #loves #man

Men still have to be governed by deception. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#governed #men #still

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#create #created #god #his #image

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greatest #mankind #sickness

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#bright #closer #everyone #genius #geniuses

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#better #handful #soldiers #than

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#better #cannot #get #i #i can