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" The world is the totality of facts, not of things. "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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" A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. "

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

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" You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. "

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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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" Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. "

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