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Free Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- 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.
- Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
- 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…
- One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard…
- Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has…
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