To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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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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Alternative Names: Conrad Photorin
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One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

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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