How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
Georg C. LichtenbergIt is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg C. LichtenbergWith God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.
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. Lichtenberg