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Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.
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Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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My difficulty is only an -- enormous -- difficulty of expression.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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It is true: Man is the microcosm: I am my world.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The world is all that is the case. (1)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The thought is the significant proposition. (4)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true. (4.442)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (5.6)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The world and life are one. (5.621)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world. (5.632)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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But ordinary language is all right.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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