I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his righ…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 98, 1799.
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 98, 1799.

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