Premeditation Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg Download Open image “Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Premeditation Virtue
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates. — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking. — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh 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
[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Who tries to sabotage my time and priority in life can never understand the sensible, best choices of my heart.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.” — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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