Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ”

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones. ”

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. ”

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ”

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. ”