Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as quoted in Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse (2002), p. 316
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We may use Lichtenberg’s writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Source: Wikiquote: "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg" (Quotes about Lichtenberg: Sorted alphabetically by author or source)
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