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• The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

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  Children, Lying, Believe

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

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  Philosophical, Boxers, Philosopher

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, (Conversation of 1930), 1981.

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• This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

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  Jobs, Philosopher, Landlord

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• Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

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  Squares, Cities, Symbolism

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• You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

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  Speak

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel”, p.125, Univ of California Press

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• To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

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  Mean, Technique, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

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  Beautiful, Butterfly, Ugly

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel, 40th Anniversary Edition”, Univ of California Press

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• I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

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  Would Be, Tomorrow, Predicting The Future

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• I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

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  Giving, Source, Indifferent

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?

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  Life, Forever, Soul

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

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• For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

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  Death, Events In Life, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.

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  Believe, Fall, Mean

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• The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

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  Happiness, Fate, Grace

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Book, Hard Work, Outcomes

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• A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

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  Mathematics, Proof, Mathematical

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

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• If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

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  Writing, Style, Deceit

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• How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.

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  God

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.67, University of Chicago Press

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• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

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  Religious, Sex, Attitude

  "Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism". Book by Richard Thomas Eldridge. Chapter: "Conversations with Wittgenstein", p. 130, 1997.

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• And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

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  Language, Imagine, Form

  "Philosophical Investigations".

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• Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

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  Wonderful, Wonderful Life, Last Words

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

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• White must be the lightest color in a picture.

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  Color, White

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• If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

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  Use, Logic, Tricks

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 24e), 1980.

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• When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

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  Home, Essence, Games

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Squares, Glue

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• Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Genius, Talent, Forget

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