Georg C. LichtenbergThinkers

Accumulation is a often slow, silent process. The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.

Belief is ambivalent. One can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it.

Belief is not easily regained once lost. There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

Body and soul is a horse harnessed beside an ox.

The Book is a mirror: If an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Change is no guarantee that things are going to get better, but in order for things to get better, they must change.

Changing one's mind often takes more courage than to stick to one's opinions.

Company is loved by man, even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Human nature is unknowable. Any presumptive knowledge thereof is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Imitation is also at work when one does just the opposite.