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 Apothecary Copy Share Image
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Deeds Copy Share Image
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Find Copy Share Image
One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Hands Copy Share Image
One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Art 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 Character Copy Share Image
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Children Copy Share Image
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg People Copy Share Image
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Ability Copy Share Image
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Habit Copy Share Image
Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Holes Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Book Copy Share Image
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Form Copy Share Image
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Desire Copy Share Image
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? — Georg C. Lichtenberg God Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Contemplating Copy Share Image
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bread Copy Share Image
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Age Copy Share Image
There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Believe Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Annoying Copy Share Image
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Cutting Copy Share Image
