"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote"
"Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only."
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Source: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.26, University of Chicago Press
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