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Ludwig Wittgenstein Inspirational Quotes (183)

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Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
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A picture is a model of reality.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
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And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
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There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
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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.
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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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Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
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In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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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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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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A logical picture of facts is a thought.
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An entire mythology is stored within our language.
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We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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