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" If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lion
Talk
Understand
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" The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. "
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" The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The face is the soul of the body. "
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" Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. "
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" The world is the totality of facts, not of things. "
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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 picture is a fact. "
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Picture
" For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. "
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Man
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" Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "
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" One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' "
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Language
" 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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Push
Him
" When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. "
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Truth
Whole
" What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. "
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Your
Way
Aim
" 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. "
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Skills
Concern
" There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. "
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Reap
Sow
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" Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. "
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" A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. "
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Like
Never
Ring
" Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. "
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Like
Imagination
Word
" A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. "
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Good
Work
Serious
" If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. "
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Done
Silly
People
" 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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Great
View
Problems
" Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. "
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" What can be shown, cannot be said. "
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" A confession has to be part of your new life. "
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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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