When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
Georg C. LichtenbergThe pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Georg C. LichtenbergCautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
Georg C. LichtenbergHonest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg