“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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
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“What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150 years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“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
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“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Man has to awaken to wonder–and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“When one is frightened of the truth … then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“A confession has to be part of your new life.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“If you do know that here is one hand, we’ll grant you all the rest.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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