8 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Ethics

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on ethics

1. It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

12. As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

28. That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

77. The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

83. Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

132. If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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138. Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.

149. The expression divine service should cease to be applied to church attendance and be applied instead to good deeds.