We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least …

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 97, 1799.
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