A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is h… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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El único defecto de los escritores realmente buenos es que casi siempre ocasionan que haya muchos malos o regulares.

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.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

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