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Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door thats unlocked and

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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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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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Music
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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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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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It isnt true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. – Mario Vargas Llosa

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Prison

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Prison

Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. – Richard Lovelace

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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. – Stendhal

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