Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
- G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg