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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
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“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
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“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
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“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“I am my world.”
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“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
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“Only describe, don't explain.”
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
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“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
― Philosophical Investigations
― Philosophical Investigations
“Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”
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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.”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
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“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
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“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
― Philosophical Investigations
― Philosophical Investigations
“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
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“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
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“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”
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“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“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.”
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“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”
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“I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
“Ethics and aesthetics are one.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
“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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“What can be shown, cannot be said.”
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