Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Men, Judging

• To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Character, People

• We 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

  Religious, Philosophical, Character

• A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Resent, Personality Flaws

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 46, 1799.

• If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Men, Failing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 46, 1799.

• Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Humor, Character, Men

• We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Fall, Character, Judging

• There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Men, Skeletons

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