"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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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
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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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