Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Culture
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.