3 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Habits

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on habits

2. One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

55. Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

58. A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.