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“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein · Knowledge

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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