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All other truths need word or picture, demonstration or laboratory when they are to be conveyed to others, but the one truth which is an exception to this rule is also the deepest of all, the supreme wisdom. It comes to man, whether from another man or from God, only when the fullest silence reigns and when he himself is fully passive.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 5 : The Philosopher > # 212