Georg C. Lichtenberg

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#distorted #most #slightly #truths

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#people #prevent #read #simply #themselves

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#always #cannot #especially #nature #observe

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#back #called #human #human nature #knowledge

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#actual #any #aristocracy #cannot #decree

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #delight #demonstrates #having #leads

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#erudition #foliage #fruit #produce #without

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#appeal #clad #even #garments #needs

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