George Lichtenberg

Instead of saying that the world is reflected in our intellect, it is better to say that our intellect is reflected in the world.

The question is whether the intellectual one, without the heart, can understand God. The truth is that if our heart understands God our intellect will then start to seek Him.

I cannot stop thinking that I was dead before I was born, and at my death I will return to the same state.

The title "scholar” suggests that a person has gone to school, and that he studied, but it does not mean that he has acquired any truly important knowledge.

Reading too much is harmful to your independence of thought. The greatest thinkers I’ve met among scholars are people who do not read too much.

Man, whose teacher is nature, should not be a piece of wax on which an elevated image of some professor is to be carved.

The truth should often overcome thousands of obstacles, until it is accepted.

Too voracious reading, begun at too early an age, fills our minds with undigested material. Our memory can become the master of our feelings and our fate; and when it does, an intellectual effort is required to reinforce our feelings with primeval innocence, to find ourselves amidst the dusty heaps of foreign thoughts and viewpoints, in order to start feeling by ourselves, and - I am ready to say - in order to live on our own.