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• Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Realism, Idealism, Ifs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.79, University of Chicago Press

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• Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wish, Acting, Willing

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• 6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Events, Duration

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.190, Routledge

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• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lions, Language, Understanding Him

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Mean, World

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

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• A logical picture of facts is a thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Facts, Logical

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• I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Garden, Tree

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

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• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Vanity, Culture

  Conversation in 1934. "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections". Book by Rush Rhees, 1981.

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• Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Giving, Tasks

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung”, p.57, Linkgua digital

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• An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Irritation, Long

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• Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Advantage

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ideas, Community, Citizens

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, Errors, Laughing

  "Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951" edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, Ch. 7, (p. 123), 1993.

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• Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Nonsensical, Found

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clothes, Body, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.63, Routledge

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• The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wish, Events, Accompany

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Vanishing, Problem, Life Is

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.187, Routledge

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• Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Spring, Water, Use

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• Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Science, Yield, Doe

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• Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Holiday, Goes On

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

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• If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Attitude, Thinking, Important

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

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• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religion, Duration, Eternal Life

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

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