(82 quotes found)
“He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out”
“One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything”
“I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state”
“To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts”
“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.”
“An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.”
“God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.”
