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Belief
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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Books
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Change
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"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Christianity
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Mankind, Man
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The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Morals
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As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Books by and about G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
