#thing

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 #else #fails #jest #man

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#back #called #human #human nature #knowledge

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#be true #believe #everything #hear #lawyers

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#find #itself #least #little #little bit

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#always #better #build #cards #castles

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. Lichtenberg

#bodies #did #filthy #heads #idea

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#ask #blessings #courage #heaven #never

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#makes #nothing #old #older #quickly

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. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#connects #free #friction #gliding #habit