Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes:

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

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

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

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

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