Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Character

• No hay que juzgar a los hombres por sus opiniones, sino por lo que sus opiniones han hecho de ellos.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Carácter, Hombres, Juzgar

• 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

  Creer, Carácter, Gente

• 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

• Nada revela tan claramente el carácter de una persona como la broma de la que se resiente.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Resent, Personality Flaws

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

• Si todo lo demás falla, el carácter de un hombre no puede reconocerse por nada tan seguro como por una broma que se tome a mal.

  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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