We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.


B 11 - Aphorisms (1765-1799) - Notebook B (1768-1771)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of...

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of...

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of...

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of...