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• Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Science, Understanding, Mathematics

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Sleep, Science

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 5e, 1980.

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• What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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• I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Attitude, Philosophy, Thinking

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• It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Problem, Easier, Solve

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.261, John Wiley & Sons

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• Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Growing Up, Inspiration, Tree

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 44e), 1980.

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• The world is everything that is the case.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Cases

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 1 (1922)

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• Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Goal, Problem, Nonsensical

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• All mathematics is tautology.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mathematics, Tautology

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• I am my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Light, Lenses

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 41e), 1980.

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• The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Creativity, Simplicity, Important

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.253, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, People, Trying

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• 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).

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Should Have

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

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• My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Intelligent, Wish, Logic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Brian McGuinness (2012). “Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons

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• At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Persuasion, Reason, Ends

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Superstitions, Belief, Nexus

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.17, Clube de Autores

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• We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Interpretation, Aspect

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel”, Univ of California Press

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• What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

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  Lying, Father, Eye

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• What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Judging, World, Want

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• At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Inspirational, Lying, Deceit

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• My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Two, Important, Written

  "Wittgenstein : Sources and Perspectives". Book by C. Grant Luckhard, 1979.

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• Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Children, Pieces, Paper

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• Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Sea, Religion, May

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 53e), 1980.

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