Quotes About Lichtenberg

Oh, said the professor sympathetically, teeth, bad? He himself had been lucky, he'd only lost five, Professor Lichtenberg was left with a mere two, and Kästner had been toothless for years.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

As Lichtenberg said of angels," he wrote in one of his last letters, "so I say of dust. If they, or it, ever could speak to us, why in God's name should we understand?

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.