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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  1. A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
  2. 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 t…
  3. A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
  4. For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its …
  5. A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
  6. For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
  7. A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public…
  8. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

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Topics in this quote

  • language
  • communication
  • influence
  • persuasion
  • reason
  • rhetoric

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