“"Fare well!"
"A whole world of pain is contained in these words." How can it be contained in them? — It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.”

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 52e

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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