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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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• The world is everything that is the case.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Cases

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 1 (1922)

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• My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Two, Important, Written

  "Wittgenstein : Sources and Perspectives". Book by C. Grant Luckhard, 1979.

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• When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

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• The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Children, Lying, Believe

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Giving, Tasks

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung”, p.57, Linkgua digital

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• One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Remarks

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Hurt, Thinking, Willing

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• The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Fall, Mean

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• Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Advantage

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Imagine, Form

  "Philosophical Investigations".

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• I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Giving, Source, Indifferent

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Air, Discussion

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 2e, 1980.

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• Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wish, Acting, Willing

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.85, University of Chicago 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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• There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Reap, Remarks

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• Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Color, Ordinary

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• Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Genius, Talent, Forget

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• Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, World, Microcosm

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

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• Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Spring, Water, Use

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• Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Use, Pseudo, Brilliant

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 55e), 1980.

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• Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Climbing

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• The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Doe, World, Facts

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• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Vanity, Culture

  Conversation in 1934. "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections". Book by Rush Rhees, 1981.

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