Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
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More Quotes By Ludwig Wittgenstein
  1. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

  2. A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

  3. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

  4. The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

  5. I am my world.

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