“Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.”

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 53e

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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