That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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