An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He a... - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."

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