"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote"
"Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color."
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Source: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1977). “Bemerkungen Über Die Farben”
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