Georg Christoph Lichtenberg said this quote

“ I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'. ”

Famous Quotes of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg