God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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. LichtenbergFood probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
Georg C. LichtenbergWe cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg