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Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter hea

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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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Peace
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didnt 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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War
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Superiority
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Wisdom

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. – Aristophanes

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Wisdom

Mixing ones wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. – Bertolt Brecht

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Wisdom

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, its not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, its girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it. – Elizabeth Berkley

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Wisdom

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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. – T. E. Lawrence

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Dreams

Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours – all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life – it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat. – James Van Der Beek

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Education

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. – Max Eastman

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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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