"We may use Lichtenberg’s writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as quoted in Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse (2002), p. 316