Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.

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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relati...
EMIL LUDWIG Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making prog...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off an...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strang...
EMIL LUDWIG Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
LUDWIG BORNE Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dial...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any ph...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A confession has to be part of your new life.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
LUDWIG BEMELMANS Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one ph...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional spa...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriage...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep ag...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
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Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.

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Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.

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