Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes, I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained