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Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to t

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horses good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Grammar
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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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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summers day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – John Lubbock

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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. – George Washington Carver

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Go forth under the open sky, and list To Natures teachings. – William C. Bryant

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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. – Quintilian

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