“Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.”
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“Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.”
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“The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.”
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“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
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“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
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“I am my world.”
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“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: '...”
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“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
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“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
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“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”
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“Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? A...”
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“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”
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“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible num...”
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“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible...”
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“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”
“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”
“6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Geg...”
“Language disguises thought.”