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Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the ima

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. – 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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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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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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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. – J. K. Rowling

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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Imagination

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. – Ada Louise Huxtable

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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. – William Warburton

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Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. – Pete Seeger

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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. – Robert E. Lee

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All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. – Christian Lous Lange

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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot

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