"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'"
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
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