Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
Topics
Abortion
Interference
Meddling
People
Self Concern
Respect For Others
Emotional Well-Being
Healthy Relationships
Individual Autonomy
Interpersonal Boundaries
Mind Your Own Business
Other People
Personal Boundaries
Private Matters
Self Care
Self-Focus
Social Etiquette
Personal Affairs
Boundary Respect
Social Intrusion
Citations
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph. The Waste Books. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale, New York Review Books, 2000.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.