Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

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