If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Some Similar Quotes
  1. One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. You cannot connect with anyone except through reality. - Stefan Molyneux

  3. The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens — tax livestock — labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters. - Stefan Molyneux

  4. Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology. - Stefan Molyneux

  5. We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction. - Stefan Molyneux

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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