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" Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Harmony
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" Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. "
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" 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.' "
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" What can be shown, cannot be said. "
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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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" If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. "
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" Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. "
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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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" The world is the totality of facts, not of things. "
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" Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. "
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" The limits of my language means the limits of my world. "
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" Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. "
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" 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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" 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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" Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. "
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" You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. "
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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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" A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. "
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" If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. "
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" A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. "
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" One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. "
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" There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. "
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" A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. "
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" The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. "
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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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" Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. "
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" The human body is the best picture of the human soul. "
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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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" 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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