Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.


Lichtenberg: a doctrine of scattered occasions: reconstructed from his aphorisms and reflections (ed. 1959)


There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand...

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand...

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand...

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand...