“So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
§ 470
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“Does man think because he has found that thinking pays?
Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?”
§ 467
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
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