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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. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Long
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Him
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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. "
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" Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. "
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" Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. "
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" 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. "
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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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" What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. "
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" You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. "
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" The face is the soul of the body. "
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" 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. "
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" If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. "
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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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Resting
Sleep
Snow
" 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. "
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Eyes
Fashion
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" The limits of my language means the limits of my world. "
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" Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "
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" Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. "
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" An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. "
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" What can be shown, cannot be said. "
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Said
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" A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. "
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Will
Well
" 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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" For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. "
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Truly
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" The human body is the best picture of the human soul. "
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Picture
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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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" 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
Live
" Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. "
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Never
Up
Down
" It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. "
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Music
Who
People
" When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. "
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Whole
" A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. "
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Within
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" Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. "
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