One thousand and eighty-five aphorisms and other short writings by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), scientist and satirist, a select group, whose 'Sudelbücher' – notebooks deflating social pretensions and jostling with philosophical questions – built him a following through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Tolstoy, Einstein, Breton, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche; translated and introduced by R.J. Hollingdale; originally published by Penguin in 1990.
