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• In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Should Have

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Play, People

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• In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Mean

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Class, Use, Language

  "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 43), 1953.

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• It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Impossible, Understood, One Word

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• If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Judging, Reason, Fraud

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, 1981.

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• The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1998). “Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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• The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Facts, Cases, Determine

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Photography, Wall, Men

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• If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Deals, Ifs

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 86e), 1980.

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• The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Assuming, Made

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2015). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Description, Explanation

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Eye, Men

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Country, Philosophy, Book

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• It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Different, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.7, Psychology Press

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• Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wall, Eye, Color

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1977). “Bemerkungen Über Die Farben”

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• Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 75e), 1980.

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• 'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Pain, Memories, Moving

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• The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Unhappy, Different, World

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) p. 184

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• What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Silence, Logic, Speak

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 7 (1922)

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• It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Nexus, Clear

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

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• It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  History, Doubt, Earth

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Pay, Sometimes

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Tasks, Analysis

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• The world is the totality of facts, not of things

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Facts, Totality

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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