As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but… — 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
Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own. — 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
