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• A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Essentials, Finals

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus logico-philosophicus: The German text Logisch-philosophische abhandlung”

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• No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Friendship, Needs, Likes

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• Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Reality, Theory

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.9, Routledge

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• What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Failing, Shows, Application

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.16, Psychology Press

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• If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Verbs, Firsts

  Philosophical Investigations (1953) pt. 2, sec. 10

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• If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Doing You, Encounters

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• It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Skills, Philosopher

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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• A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Impossible, Truth Is, Contradiction

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.15, Clube de Autores

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• The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Consciousness

  "Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951" edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, Ch. 9, (p. 165), 1993.

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• What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Psychology, Arms, Facts

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• For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Hands, Taught

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Views, Foundation, Building

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• One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Age, Ugly, Way

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 98e), 1980.

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• A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Logic, Language, Form

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.11, Psychology Press

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• A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Opposites, Important

  "Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information" edited by Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, (p. 140), 2008.

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• We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Use, Knows

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Way, Hats

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• Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Different, Kind

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Want, Surroundings

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

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• You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Funny, Attitude, Common Sense

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, 1981.

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• Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Civilization, Progress, Clarity

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• A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  May, Matter, Made

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rush Rhees (1975). “Philosophical remarks”, Barnes & Noble

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• Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Kissing, Burning, Way

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.123, Hackett Publishing

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• Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World

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