“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.”

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 42e

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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