Geburtstag: 15. November 1741
Todesdatum: 2. Januar 1801
Johann Caspar Lavater war ein reformierter Pfarrer, Philosoph und Schriftsteller aus der Schweiz in der Zeit der Aufklärung.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater's Physiognomik: Zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniß und Menschenliebe. Erster Band. Wien 1829. S. 96 Google Books, zitiert von Susanne Breit-Keßler in Chrismon 01.2008, S.50, chrismon. de
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Brüderliche Schreiben an verschiedene Jünglinge
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Context: Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
As quoted in Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims (1831), p. 234
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
As quoted in What Billingsgate Thought: A Country Gentleman's Views on Snobbery (1919) by William Alexander Newman Dorland
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 4
