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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity


Georg Brandes

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misun...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG