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• Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Limits, Unthinkable

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• You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

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  Might, Certain, Peg

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.66, Univ of California Press

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• You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

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  Thinking, Doe, Cost

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 52e), 1980.

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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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  Sleep, Winning, Snow

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 35e), 1980.

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• Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Facts, Language

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• The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.

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  Lying, Law, World

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• Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

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  Humor, World, Way

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• Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

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  House Of Cards, Interesting, Leaving

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• "Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

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  Arrows, Doe, True And False

  "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 454), 1953.

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• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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  Philosophical, Math, Reality

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.26, University of Chicago Press

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• I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.

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  Reality, True And False, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

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  Self, Feelings, Brain

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• It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Music, People, Mechanic

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• I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

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  Average, Baseness, Anywhere But Here

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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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  Men, Thinking, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

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  Thoughtful, Thinking, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Theory

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.9, Routledge

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• What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

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  Failing, Shows, Application

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.16, Psychology Press

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• If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

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  Thinking, Doing You, Encounters

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• There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

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  Philosophical, Different, Philosopher

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• If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Verbs, Firsts

  Philosophical Investigations (1953) pt. 2, sec. 10

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• The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.

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  Believe, Essentials, Finals

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus logico-philosophicus: The German text Logisch-philosophische abhandlung”

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• A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

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  Impossible, Truth Is, Contradiction

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.15, Clube de Autores

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• No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

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  Friendship, Needs, Likes

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