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• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Death, Mean

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Eye, Hard, Fronts

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• When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Chaos, Feels

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• What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Bottles

  Philosophical Investigations pt. 1, sec. 309 (1953)

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• Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wise, Silly, Stupidity

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 39e, 1980.

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• One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Self Esteem, Belief, Mistrust

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1982). “Last writings on the philosophy of psychology”

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• For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, Philosophical, Men

  Conversation in 1930. "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections". Book by Rush Rhees, 1981.

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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.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Problem, Feels, Stills

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.107, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Ambition is the death of thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ambition

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 77e), 1980.

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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 to walk on it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, Air, Support

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• What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

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• Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Profound, Saint, Lasts

  "Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on the ethico-religious". Ideas in History, Vol. 1, 2006.

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• The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Happiness, Determination, Different

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• Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Motivational, Yoga, Imagination

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Teacher, Teaching, Levels

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 43e), 1980.

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• This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosopher, Should, Take Your Time

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fitness, Communication, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Technique, Use, Language

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• Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Moats, Rift

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• The world is independent of my will.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Independent, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.181, Routledge

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• Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Glue, Nails

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• Aim at being loved without being admired.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Aim, Being Loved

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 38e), 1980.

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• To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  God, Believe, Mean

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.57, University of Chicago Press

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• Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Thinking, Simple

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.183, Hackett Publishing

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• The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Mean, Common

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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