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• If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Doubt, Certainty

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Philosophical, Knowledge

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (64e), 1980.

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• The world divides into facts.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Facts, Divides

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Learning, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Air, Discussion

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 2e, 1980.

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• Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Color, Ordinary

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• Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Learning, Mean, Used

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• If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Madness, Intellect, Ifs

  "Public and Private Occasions".

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• A picture is a model of reality.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Models

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.3, Clube de Autores

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• Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Fighting, Expression

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1965). “Preliminary Studies for the "Philosophical Investigations": Generally Known as the Blue and Brown Books”

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• I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Glasses, Firsts

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• Ethics and aesthetics are one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ethics, Aesthetic, Aesthetics

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.86, Psychology Press

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• The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Self, Doe, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.69, Psychology Press

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• Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Two, Principles

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Use, Pseudo, Brilliant

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 55e), 1980.

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• Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Understanding, Doe, Add

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, p. 7-8, 1970.

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• Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, World, Microcosm

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

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• When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving, Thinking, Mind

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• What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Discovery, Views, Copernicus

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• Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Say Anything, Should

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• It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Powerful, Catholic, Church

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• If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Centre, Ifs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.69, University of Chicago Press

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• I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Horse, Moments

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 36e, 1980.

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• [M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Purpose, Existence

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.55, University of Chicago Press

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• The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Doe, World, Facts

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