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Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Other quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door thats unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Prison
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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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Science
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
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But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. – Daniel Goleman

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Intelligence

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions. – Leonard Boswell

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Intelligence

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul. – Catharine Beecher

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Intelligence

I think the world is run by C students. – Al McGuire

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Intelligence

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I dont believe in an afterlife, so I dont have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. – Isaac Asimov

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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. – Andre Breton

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A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter. – Patricia Briggs

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There can be no assumption that todays majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. – Warren Earl Burger

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Differences