"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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."
-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."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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