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• One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Self Esteem, Belief, Mistrust

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1982). “Last writings on the philosophy of psychology”

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• When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Chaos, Feels

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• Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Language, Harmony

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Father, Eye

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• An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, Air, Support

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• The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Creativity, Simplicity, Important

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

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• A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.253, John Wiley & Sons

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• To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Mean, World

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

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• Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Glue, Nails

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• This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosopher, Should, Take Your Time

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• I am my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Intelligent, Wish, Logic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Brian McGuinness (2012). “Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons

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• Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Children, Pieces, Paper

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• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Language, Complicated

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ideas, Community, Citizens

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Learning, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• [M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Purpose, Existence

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.55, University of Chicago Press

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• Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Depth, Littles, Very Deep

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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• The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Doe, Untruthfulness

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

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• The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Mean, Common

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Inspirational, Lying, Deceit

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• Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Humor, People

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• Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Book, Mathematical Logic

  "Recollections of Wittgenstein". Book by Rush Rhees, 1984.

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• Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Realism, Idealism, Ifs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.79, University of Chicago Press

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• Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Reality, Mirrors

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

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