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" A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Said
Will
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" Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. "
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" You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. "
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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. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Night
Attitude
Sex
" The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Prior
Logic
World
" The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Me
Questions
Doing
" Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Someone
Too Much
Hard
" Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Like
Imagination
Word
" A picture is a fact. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Fact
Picture
" Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Knowledge
End
Based
" If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lion
Talk
Understand
" Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
World
Transcendental
Body
" 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. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nature
I Am
Good
" The face is the soul of the body. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Soul
Face
Body
" 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. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
View
Within
Comparison
" Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Good
People
Looking
" One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sees
Makes
How
" One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Word
Our
Language
" 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. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Death
Present
Live
" What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Your
Way
Aim
" Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Look
Cannot
Mistakes
" For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Man
Truly
Religious
" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Chapter
Come
Know
" I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Why
Pretty
Order
" When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Frightened
Truth
Whole
" What can be shown, cannot be said. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Cannot
Said
Shown
" A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Like
Never
Ring
" Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing
Deceiving
Difficult
" The human body is the best picture of the human soul. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Best
Picture
Body
" A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Know
Problem
Way
" You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tragedy
Breaks
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