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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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" Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned 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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" An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. "
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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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" Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. "
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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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" The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. "
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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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" A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. "
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" For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. "
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" Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. "
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" The face is the soul of the body. "
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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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" Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. "
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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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" If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. "
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" Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. "
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" You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. "
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" 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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