"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote"
"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
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Source: Conversation in 1930. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections. Book by Rush Rhees, Chapter 6, 1981.
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