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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

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The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

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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 e...more

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

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But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

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It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

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We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We...more

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An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest im...more

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I am my world.

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But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them...more

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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...more

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Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.