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Aphorisms

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Form
Form Aphorisms
Year
Year 1800
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 200

He called them his waste books, after the scrap ledgers English shopkeepers kept for the day's transactions before copying them out properly. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg never copied his out.

Materialism is the asymptote of psychology.
Aphorisms, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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