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"There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."
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Source: Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism. Book by Richard Thomas Eldridge. Chapter: Conversations with Wittgenstein, p. 130, 1997.
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