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• If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Suicide, Light, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.91, University of Chicago Press

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• If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Exhausted, Spades, Justification

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons

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• All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.23, Psychology Press

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• That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Silent, Said

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• With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Math, Mountain

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• A confession has to be part of your new life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Philosophical, Confession

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 18e), 1980.

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• In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Doe, Would Be, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Sound, Want

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• Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Needs, Done

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 86e), 1980.

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• You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Giving Up, Lying, Telling The Truth

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 44e), 1980.

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• We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Math, Law, Facts

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Darkness, Black, Rubies

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• Golden is a surface colour.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Golden, Surface, Colour

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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• One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Common Sense, Temptation

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• Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Cutting, Transcendental, Sock

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• Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mistake, Philosophical, Looks

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.21, Clube de Autores

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• All propositions are of equal value.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Logic, Language, Equal

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• The form is the possibility of the structure.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Possibility, Structure, Form

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Blue, Wind, Yellow

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• This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Psychological, Procedures

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• It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Giving, Logic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.76, Psychology Press

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• Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  History, Said

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.76, Lulu.com

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