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" It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sun
Know
Whether
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" When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. "
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" What can be shown, cannot be said. "
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Said
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" Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. "
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" There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. "
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" Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. "
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" Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. "
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" A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. "
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" The human body is the best picture of the human soul. "
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Picture
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" Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. "
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" It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. "
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. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Resting
Sleep
Snow
" A confession has to be part of your new life. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Your
New Life
Life
" Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
World
Transcendental
Body
" Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. "
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Someone
Too Much
Hard
" Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Look
Care
How
" Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never
Up
Down
" A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. "
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Said
Will
Well
" Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Eyes
Fashion
Find
" The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Me
Questions
Doing
" A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Like
Never
Ring
" Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. "
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Philosophy
Activity
Theory
" The limits of my language means the limits of my world. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Means
Language
World
" 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. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Long
Push
Him
" Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language
Intelligence
Battle
" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Chapter
Come
Know
" You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. "
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You
Concept
Language
" Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy
Nothing
Door
" Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. "
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Knowledge
End
Based
" 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. "
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Present
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" Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. "
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