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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
Scientist
University Teacher
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København
Everything
Even
Sentence
Sentences
Doubt
Least
Four
Times
Two
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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