Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconn…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 36, 1799.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 41, 1799.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 33, 1799.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
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The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 36, 1799.

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