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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Easter

1742–1799 Germany

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If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

Aphorisms (1765)

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Aphorisms (1765)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.