“One who knows little may explain that little with more ease and efficacy than one who has his head stuffed full of the prescribed bunch of official wisdom.”

— Joseph Dietzgen

Letter 1
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

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german philosopher 1828–1888

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