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• That the world is, is the mystical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Mystical

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• Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wise, Silly, Stupidity

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 39e, 1980.

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• The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

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  Vanishing, Problem, Life Is

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.187, Routledge

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• You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

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  Speak

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel”, p.125, Univ of California Press

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• Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

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  Architecture, Glorify

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• We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Interpretation, Aspect

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

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• You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Pain, Language, Concepts

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

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• What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Men

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• Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Thinking, Simple

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.183, Hackett Publishing

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• Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

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  Philosophical, Holiday, Goes On

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

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• The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

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  Differences, Simplicity, Design

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• The world is made up of facts, not things.

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  World, Facts, Made

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• This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Jobs, Philosopher, Landlord

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• Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Philosophical, Knowledge

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (64e), 1980.

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• The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Difficulty, Knows

  "The Blue Book" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (p. 45), 1965.

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• Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Talking, Heaven, Attention

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 56e), 1980.

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• What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.

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  People, Understanding, Important

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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• Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

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  Learning, Mean, Used

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• Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

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  Body, Spirit, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

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  Philosophy, Fighting, Expression

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1965). “Preliminary Studies for the "Philosophical Investigations": Generally Known as the Blue and Brown Books”

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• The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wish, Events, Accompany

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

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  Judging, World, Want

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• Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Sea, Religion, May

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

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• What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

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  Everyday, Use, Metaphysical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.129, John Wiley & Sons

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• If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

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  World, Centre, Ifs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.69, University of Chicago Press

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