Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we hardly seem able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg