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.
Georg C. LichtenbergAbout author
- Author's profession: Scientist, Writer
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: July 1, 1742
- Died: February 24, 1799
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He had two lives: one, open, and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And though some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.
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