Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
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If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.G. C. Lichtenberg
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump. . .
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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