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If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
Quote by -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Quote by -Ludwig Wittgenstein
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Quote by -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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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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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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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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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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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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Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
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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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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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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
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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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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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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
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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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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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We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.
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Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.
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Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
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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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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
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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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Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.
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It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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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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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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