There are people who believe everything is sane and sensibl… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. … It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth … into a liar — that I call an achievement.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and philosopher.

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Alternative Names: Conrad Photorin

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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.

"Думата "трудност" не трябва да съществува за творческия ум. Долу тази дума!"

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

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