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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  1. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
  2. The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
  3. Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when e…
  4. The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
  5. One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
  6. The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
  7. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone pres…
  8. The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

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Topics in this quote

  • truth
  • knowledge
  • ethics
  • lies

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