Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

  Culture and Value (1980), p. 42e

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• Ambition is the death of thought.

  Culture and Value (1980), p. 77e

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• An entire mythology is stored within our language.

  Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7: Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, p. 133

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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