QUOTES by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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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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This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
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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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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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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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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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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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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.
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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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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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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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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
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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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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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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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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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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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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
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