He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
Georg C. LichtenbergThere are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Georg C. LichtenbergPain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
Georg C. LichtenbergA schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
Georg C. Lichtenberg