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.
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Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.G. C. Lichtenberg
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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.
G. C. Lichtenberg
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
G. C. Lichtenberg
If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
G. C. Lichtenberg
In each of us there is a little of all of us.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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