The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
