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Ludwig Wittgenstein Inspirational Quotes (183)

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If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.
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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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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.
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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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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You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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The form is the possibility of the structure.
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To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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Your questions refer to words so I have to talk about words. You say:: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.
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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
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A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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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?
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