Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

My entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn’t go as planned and that’s OK.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

There is no mistake in nature.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

People are used to being coddled.

The basis of peace should be a world federation.

Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.