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• One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Eye, Familiarity

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Following

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• Ambition is the death of thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ambition

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 77e), 1980.

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• To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  God, Believe, Mean

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

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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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• The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Happiness, Determination, Different

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fitness, Communication, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Moats, Rift

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• Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Science, Understanding, Mathematics

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, Philosophical, Men

  Conversation in 1930. "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections". Book by Rush Rhees, 1981.

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• What can be shown, cannot be said.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Said

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Eye, Hard, Fronts

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• Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fashion, War, Eye

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• There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Light, Lenses

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 41e), 1980.

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• What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Bottles

  Philosophical Investigations pt. 1, sec. 309 (1953)

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• In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Should Have

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1998). “Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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• If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Attitude, Thinking, Important

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 53e), 1980.

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• What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

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• Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Common Sense, Three

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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 logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Philosophical, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Eternity, Live In The Present, Unending

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• The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, World, Cognitive Therapy

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• If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, People, Trying

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• Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Important, Lasts, Teach

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 85e), 1980.

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