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24cc82a
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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taoism
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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9f59265
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
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mind
social-anxiety
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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addc622
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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0c46ec9
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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
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problems
knowledge
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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86d9764
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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.
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philosophy
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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ea792db
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We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
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science
philosophy
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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b146763
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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individuality
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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99161a9
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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
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certainty
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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2abfabe
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Ethics and aesthetics are one.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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465ceb0
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For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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5622c81
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Language disguises thought.
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philosophy
semiotics
logic
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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d8b5615
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Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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9d22aba
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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3dd60ec
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A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
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philosophy
picture
solipsism
language
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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89bc203
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Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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e4c251d
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If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
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doubt
doubting
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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a429e44
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I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
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source
thought
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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94e9cf0
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Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I'll teach you differences'.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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aa2f42b
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Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, daruber muss man schweigen.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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38ae2d9
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My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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194fc98
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Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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5eaa9ed
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That it doesn't strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how natural these things are to us. We do not notice that we see space perspectivally or that our visual field is in some sense blurred towards the edges. It doesn't strike us and never can strike us because it is the way we perceive. We never give it a thought and it's impossible we should, since there is nothing that contras..
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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291e2fa
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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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614b789
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The face is the soul of the body.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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1a9f4e4
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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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b5d8328
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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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4c798a0
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The temporal immortality of the soul of man, that is to say, its eternal survival also after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive forever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies space and time.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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0c84032
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What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning..
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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4ffdc49
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Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
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causality
superstition
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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32781d7
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I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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f1a3d58
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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c9858fd
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So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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e9eec66
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6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who ..
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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e1c88da
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We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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221aee1
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Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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f23dcf4
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Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klarung der Gedanken. Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tatigkeit. Ein philosophisches Werk besteht wesentlich aus Erlauterungen. Das Resultat der Philosophie sind nicht >>philosophische Satze<<, sondern das Klarwerden von Satzen. Die Philosophie soll die Gedanken, die sonst, gleichsam, trube und verschwommen sind, klar machen und scharf abgrenzen. 4.112 The object of philosophy is the ..
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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53567b0
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Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
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heretics
negotiation
ideas
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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5ffde6d
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People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.
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poetry
science
music
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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c6bc259
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In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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39af01e
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The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means ..
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progress
history
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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34dfd68
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In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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3aa2397
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Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.
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world
atmosphere
environment
society
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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10bb1a3
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Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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89f399a
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Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |