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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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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Religion
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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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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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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