Who said “We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the…”?

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Georg C. Lichtenberg. A published source records them saying or writing it.

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“We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.”
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Lichtenberg, G. C. (n.d.). We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms. [Quotation]. Famous Quotations Network. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://www.famous-quotations.com/quotes/15694-we-can-see-nothing-whatever-of-the-soul/

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Lichtenberg, Georg C. “We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.” Famous Quotations Network, https://www.famous-quotations.com/quotes/15694-we-can-see-nothing-whatever-of-the-soul/. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.

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Lichtenberg, Georg C. “We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.” Famous Quotations Network. Accessed October 24, 2026. https://www.famous-quotations.com/quotes/15694-we-can-see-nothing-whatever-of-the-soul/.