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" There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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" Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. "
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" The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. "
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" You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. "
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" Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. "
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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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" If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. "
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" Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. "
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" A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. "
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" Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. "
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" Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. "
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" Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "
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" One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. "
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" A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. "
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" Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. "
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" The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown 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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