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Ludwig Wittgenstein Inspirational Quotes (183)

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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
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Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
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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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If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
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Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
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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.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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Language disguises thought.
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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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.
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If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
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Elementary propositions consist of names.
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One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.
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When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
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The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
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