Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

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About Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

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Wenn ich im Traum mit jemanden disputiere und der mich widerlegt und belehrt, so bin ich es, des sich selbst belehrt, also nachdenkt. Dieses Nachdenken wird also unter der Form von Gespräch angeschaut.(...) Da wir eigentlich nicht gnau wissen, wo wir denken, so können wir den Gedanken hinversetzen, wo wir wollen. So wie man sprechen kann, daß man glaubt, es komme von einem Dritten, so kann man auch so denken, daß es läßt, als würde es uns gesagt: Genius Sokratispp. Wie erstaunend vieles ließe sich nicht durch die Träume noch entwickeln.

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