Author of quotes: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I am convinced that if God ever wanted to create such a person as the masters and professors of philosophy imagine him, then this person would have to be sent to the insane asylum on the same day.

To do what is fair, you need to know very little. But to legitimately create an injustice, you need to thoroughly study law.

Our skills are becoming increasingly significant and, in the end, probably, man will fulfill all, nothing conscious.

About what man should be, even the best people don't know almost anything for certain; about the same as it is something you can learn by the example of each.

While man lives, he is a revolutionary. In his dissatisfaction, in his quest for something higher - that is his humanity.

The best way to praise the living and the dead is to forgive their weaknesses.

Before condemning, we should always think if you can find an excuse.

Education is a special kind of birth.

The world exists not for the fact that we learned and that we educated themselves in it.

An honest man and a crook just confuse the concepts of "mine" and "yours". One considers first for the second, and another second for the first.

Bad people win when they know better, and a good lose.

Do not make yourself too tricky ideas about man, you judge him just; not count it neither too good nor too bad.

Slave act - not always the act of a slave.

The person in love with themselves, there is the advantage that he has few rivals.