About Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of the strange tree-like patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
Georg Christoph LichtenbergNothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergWith most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergThere is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergDon't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergWhen they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg