"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.“
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'"
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."
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"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
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"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
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