32 In the eye of a man of the world any particular man always remains the same, whether he be a wigmaker or a minister of state, just as marble remains what it is: whether the statue represents Apollo or a Capuchin monk it cannot become bronze or sandstone.
George Christoph Lichtenberg, the Waste Books
Translated by R.J. Hollingdale
22 There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points “born” and “died” farther away from one another…The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers…
George Christoph Lichtenberg, the Waste Books
Translated by R.J. Hollingdale
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
George Christoph Lichtenberg, the Waste Books
Translated by R.J. Hollingdale
10 One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
George Christoph Lichtenberg, the Waste Books
Translated by R.J. Hollingdale
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.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books
Nochrisis 