Quotes by Lichtenberg, Georg C.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: >>

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and >>

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the min >>

Quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy

A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. >>

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be phi >>

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond >>

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.