I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEINIf a lion could speak, we could not understand him.
More Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
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In art, it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
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Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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Roughly speaking: objects are colorless.
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You can’t think decently if you’re not willing to hurt yourself.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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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.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
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Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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Language disguises thought.
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