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Famous Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
“Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.”
“Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.”
“Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.”
“Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.”
“As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.”
“Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.”
“Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.”
“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.”
“How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?”
“One has to do something new in order to see something new.”