Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Critique
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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Some people read because they are too lazy to think.
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Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
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We may use Lichtenberg's writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden.