Quote by Wittgenstein, Ludwig

"If a man could write a book on Ethics which really was a book on Ethics, this book would, with an explosion, destroy all the other books in the world."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wisdom
Philosopher Austrian-British 1889–1951

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