Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Honesty, Practice, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 54, 1799.

• So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Math, Reputation, Sanctity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 52, 1799.

• Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Sickness, Mankind, Defects

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 100, 1799.

• Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Views, Judging, Natural

• Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Battle, Strange, Should

• How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ideas, Liberty, Mankind

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