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Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole tru

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Other quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Death
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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
Truth
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. – Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Truth

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isnt. – Mark Twain

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Truth

Random Quotes

If at first you dont succeed, failure may be your style. – Quentin Crisp

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Failure

Why kill time when one can employ it. – Proverb

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Time

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Action

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does. – Nick Clegg

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Attitude