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Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951

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 on philosophy

Philosophical Investigations (1953), § 133

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