“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous”

—  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook A (1765-1770)
Context: It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

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