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" Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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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" Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. "
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" The face is the soul of the body. "
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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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" 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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" The world is the totality of facts, not of things. "
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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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" Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "
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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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" A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. "
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