“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 64e
“Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.”
“A Lie,” p. 65
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
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