"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."

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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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"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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"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."

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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."

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