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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason…

Quote byLudwig Wittgenstein · 1889–1951

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Personal Recollections (1981), Conversation of 1930.

English (original)

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

1330

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