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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Centre, Ifs

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

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Learning, Mean, Used

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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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• If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Doubt, Certainty

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Body, Spirit, Language

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

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• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lions, Language, Understanding Him

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Everyday, Use, Metaphysical

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

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• When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving, Thinking, Mind

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• For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Doe, Answers

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

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• A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Teacher, Teaching, Levels

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 43e), 1980.

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• The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Self, Doe, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.69, Psychology Press

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• An entire mythology is stored within our language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Mythology

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.133, Hackett Publishing

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• Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Superstitions, Belief, Nexus

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.17, Clube de Autores

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• The world divides into facts.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Facts, Divides

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Ethics and aesthetics are one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ethics, Aesthetic, Aesthetics

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.86, Psychology Press

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• Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Play, People

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• A picture is a model of reality.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Models

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.3, Clube de Autores

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• I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Horse, Moments

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 36e, 1980.

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• Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Say Anything, Should

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• I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Garden, Tree

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Powerful, Catholic, Church

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• What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Discovery, Views, Copernicus

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• The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Christian, Mean, Heart

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• Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Growing Up, Inspiration, Tree

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

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