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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. "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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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" Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. "

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" If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. "

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" Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. "

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" A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. "

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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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" The limits of my language means the limits of my world. "

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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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" 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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" A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. "

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