QUOTES by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.
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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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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.
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The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.
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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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The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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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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I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.
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There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.
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Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
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What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.
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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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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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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.
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Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.
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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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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
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In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
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Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
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Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.
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We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.
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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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In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.
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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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I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.
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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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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
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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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It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
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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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