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• I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Views, Foundation, Building

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• Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Giving Up, Writing, Science

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• What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Psychology, Arms, Facts

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• For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Hands, Taught

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

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• Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Children, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.175, Hackett Publishing

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• What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Accepted, Form, Given

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

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• When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Walking Sticks, Tree

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.137, Hackett Publishing

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• A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Logic, Language, Form

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.11, Psychology Press

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• Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Character, Genius, Talent

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• We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Use, Knows

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Opposites, Important

  "Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information" edited by Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, (p. 140), 2008.

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• No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Way, Hats

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• If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Want, Surroundings

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

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• Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Different, Kind

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Civilization, Progress, Clarity

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• You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Funny, Attitude, Common Sense

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

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• The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Consciousness

  "Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951" edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, Ch. 9, (p. 165), 1993.

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• A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  May, Matter, Made

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rush Rhees (1975). “Philosophical remarks”, Barnes & Noble

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• Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Kissing, Burning, Way

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.123, Hackett Publishing

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• Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World

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• If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Suicide, Light, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.91, University of Chicago Press

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• All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.23, Psychology Press

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• If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Exhausted, Spades, Justification

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons

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• That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Silent, Said

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• There can never be surprises in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Math, Logic, Surprise

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

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