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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

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It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.

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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

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