Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

"What makes a subject hard to understand—if it is significant, important—is not that before you can understand it you need to be specially trained in abstruse matters, but the contrast between understanding the subject and what most people want to see."

Ludwig Wittgenstein Education
Philosopher Austrian-British 1889–1951

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"The world is everything that is the case."

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