To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
Georg C. LichtenbergWhen an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
Georg C. LichtenbergWhen a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
Georg C. LichtenbergThere is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.
Georg C. LichtenbergI ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince oneโs opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
Georg C. Lichtenberg