Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Georg C. LichtenbergWhat you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
Georg C. LichtenbergTo many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
Georg C. LichtenbergThe great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
Georg C. Lichtenberg