Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.


Aphorisms, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (1990)


We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such...

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such...

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such...

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such...