In this paper Loewenberg expresses his great admiration for Lichtenberg, about whom Goethe said: 'Where he makes a joke, a problem lies hidden'. Translating some of his wonderful aphorisms, he throws light on Lichtenberg as a forerunner of semanticists.

'Therefore, I have often wished that there existed a language in which an error could not be said, or where every boner against truth would be also a grammatical error.'

'If only one could educate children to that point where everything that is vague or indistinct would be entirely unintelligible to them'.

It is my fond hope that Lichtenberg is not quite as forgotten as the author believes. He is at least immortalized for psychoanalysts in Freud's frequent quotations from him.