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G. C. Lichtenberg: a "spy on humanity".
We may use Lichtenberg's writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden.
--Goethe
Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone.... He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.
--Karl Kraus
[T]here are truths that are singularly shy and ticklish and cannot be caught except suddenly --that must be surprised or left alone.
--Nietzsche
In the exacting ledger of posterity, the aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg rates high but is undeniably a specialty item. He is not a household name. He is something rarer: a name savored by household names. ...
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