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• You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Pain, Language, Concepts

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

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• Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Important, Lasts, Teach

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 85e), 1980.

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• There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mystical, Manifest

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.89, Psychology Press

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• Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Ends, Acknowledgement

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Language, Harmony

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• The world is made up of facts, not things.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Facts, Made

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• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Language, Complicated

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Difficulty, Knows

  "The Blue Book" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (p. 45), 1965.

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• Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Talking, Heaven, Attention

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 56e), 1980.

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• Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Carpe Diem, Thinking, Looks

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• Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Depth, Littles, Very Deep

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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• The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Christian, Mean, Heart

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• An entire mythology is stored within our language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Mythology

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.133, Hackett Publishing

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• What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  People, Understanding, Important

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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• It is love that believes the resurrection.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Resurrection

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• The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Differences, Simplicity, Design

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• I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Science, Mathematics, Process

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, Rush Rhees, Georg Henrik Wright (1967). “Remarks on the foundations of mathematics”

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• The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Doe, Untruthfulness

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

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• A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wall, Dirty, Color

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• A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Way, Problem

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.133, John Wiley & Sons

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• If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Eternity, Live In The Present, Unending

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• Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Reality, Mirrors

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

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• It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Philosopher, Problem

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

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• For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Doe, Answers

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

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