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• We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Problem, Feels, Stills

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.107, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Hypothesis, Explanation

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

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• All mathematics is tautology.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mathematics, Tautology

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• Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Motivational, Yoga, Imagination

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Design, Said, Semantics

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

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• Genius is talent exercised with courage.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Genius, Talent

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 38e), 1980.

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• To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Believe In God

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• Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  People, Hell

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• Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Matter

  "Wittgenstein Reads Freud : The Myth of the Unconscious" by Jacques Bouveresse, as translated by Carol Cosman, (p. 14), 1996.

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• Aim at being loved without being admired.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Aim, Being Loved

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 38e), 1980.

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• He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Time, Eternity, Live In The Present

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Mystery

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• It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Years, Two Year Olds, Long

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• The world is independent of my will.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Independent, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.181, Routledge

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• Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.57, University of Chicago Press

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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 eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Death, Mean

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mystical, Manifest

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.89, Psychology Press

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• Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Decision, World, Limits

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• I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Attitude, Philosophy, Thinking

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• The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clouds, Trying, Shapes

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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

  Philosophical, Sleep, Science

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 5e, 1980.

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• The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Logical, Clarification

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

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• It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Problem, Easier, Solve

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.261, John Wiley & Sons

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• At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Persuasion, Reason, Ends

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Patents, Pieces, Nonsense

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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