To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.
Georg C. LichtenbergHe who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Georg C. LichtenbergWe now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?
Georg C. LichtenbergWhen a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
Georg C. Lichtenberg