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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Source: Personal Recollections, ch. 6 (ed. by Rush Rhees, 1981), said in conversation in 1930.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein, (Apr 26 1889-1951), Austrian-English philosopher; He was one of the most influential figures in British philosophy; produced two original and influential systems of philosophical thought.

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