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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. ↗

— 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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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. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The world is the totality of facts, not of things. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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