“I can live with the Mysteries; it is the Explanations I cannot bear.”

— Karlheinz Deschner

Die Geheimnisse der Welt ertrage ich gut; nicht die Erklärungen dafür. <br class="br"> deschner.info http://www.deschner.info/de/person/zitate.htm

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German writer and activist 1924–2014

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