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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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
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København
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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