It requires no especially great talent to write in such a way that another will be very hard put to it to understand what you have written

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About Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and philosopher.

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You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

That there are a hundred with wit for one with understanding is a true proposition with which many witless Dummkopf consoles himself.The Dummkopf should also reflect that there also a hundred possessing neither wit nor understanding for every man possessing wit .