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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'.
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'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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