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Quote of the day 08/28/24

From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”

From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Don’t, for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”

From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”

From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”

From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

From John Steinbeck: “No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

From Zhuangzi: “I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.”