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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Long
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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.
- Like
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
- Must
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A confession has to be part of your new life.
- Never
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
- Language
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
- Good
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
- Good Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
- Reap
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
- Exhibition
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doctrine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The face is the soul of the body.
- Nov 07, 2020
What can be shown, cannot be said.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A picture is a fact.
- Nov 07, 2020
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is independent of my will.
- Rise
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- Nov 07, 2020