Georg C. Lichtenberg Way Quotations

There are two ways of extending life : firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, "Oh, I see. That's how it must be." This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

The great rule: 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.