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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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København
Doubt
Least
Four
Times
Two
Everything
Even
Sentence
Sentences
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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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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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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