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 Character Copy Share Image
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Bears Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Flesh Copy Share Image
The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Feelings Copy Share Image
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? — Georg C. Lichtenberg Battle Copy Share Image
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Discovery Copy Share Image
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Believe 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 Grateful Copy Share Image
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Character Copy Share Image
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Believe 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 Believe Copy Share Image
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Difficult Copy Share Image
I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Dog Copy Share Image
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Free spirit Copy Share Image
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Accounts 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 Broken 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 Character Copy Share Image
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Fool Copy Share Image
The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Death Copy Share Image
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Eye Copy Share Image
Some people read only because they are too lazy to think. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Books Copy Share Image
