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" The limits of my language means the limits of my world. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Means
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" Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. "
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" There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. "
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" Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. "
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" A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. "
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" Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. "
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End
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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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" If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. "
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" A picture is a fact. "
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" Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. "
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" Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. "
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" Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. "
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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. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Why
Pretty
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" The world is the totality of facts, not of things. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Things
Totality
Facts
" You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
You
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" Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never
Up
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" Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Complicated
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" The human body is the best picture of the human soul. "
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Picture
Body
" For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. "
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Truly
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" Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "
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Must
Speak
Thereof
" One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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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Him
Man
Science
" Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. "
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Greatest
May
" Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Activity
Theory
" The world is independent of my will. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Will
Independent
Independence
" A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. "
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Fresh
Discussion
New
" It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Himself
Skills
Concern
" A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Know
Problem
Way
" Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Look
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How
" If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Silly
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" A confession has to be part of your new life. "
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New Life
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