"Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone... but he does not come up again. Only he hears him who digs deep himself."

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Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone... He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him. — As quoted in Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse (2002) by Roger Kimball, p. 316