#p

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#candle #company #even #loves #man

The 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. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#apostle #book #hardly #into #likely

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

We 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

#always #cannot #especially #nature #observe

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #delight #demonstrates #having #leads

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#covered #decorum #every #every man #his

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ever #hunger #millions #necessary #only

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#find #itself #least #little #little bit

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#almost #begotten #case #everywhere #greater