"First, there is a time when we believe everything without reasons, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, & then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe everything."
(George Christoph Lichtenberg)
George Christoph Lichtenberg is considered to be today one of the best aphorists in the Western intellectual history. He was an 18th century German scientist, satirist and anglophile, most famous for a series of notebooks, the so-called "waste books", which included quotations that struck Lichtenberg, titles of books to read, autobiographical sketches, and sh