To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
