• 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.

    Georg C. Lichtenberg: 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.
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 146, 1799.