Quotes by Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever >>

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do >>

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates >>

Quotations about Brevity

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them to >>

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one ha >>

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. >>

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.