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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Society

1742–1799 Germany

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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991)

The common individual always conforms to the prevailing opinion and the prevailing fashion; he regards the state in which everything now exists as the only possible one and passively accepts it all. … To the genius it always occurs to ask: Could this too not be false?

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