Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.


J 146 - Aphorisms (1765-1799) - Notebook J (1789)


It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped...

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped...

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped...

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped...