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• Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Kings, Book, Thinking

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• A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

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  Mathematics, Proof, Mathematical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, Rush Rhees, Georg Henrik Wright (1967). “Remarks on the foundations of mathematics”

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• Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Science, Yield, Doe

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• Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Proof, Results

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• For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

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  Death, Events In Life, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

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  Religion, Duration, Eternal Life

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

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• A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

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  Religious, Errors, Laughing

  "Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951" edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, Ch. 7, (p. 123), 1993.

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• Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Mind, Stones

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

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  Wonderful, Wonderful Life, Last Words

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

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• Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?

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  Life, Forever, Soul

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

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• Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

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  Humor, World, Way

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• I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

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  Mean, Thinking, Church

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• Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

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  Philosophical, Contradiction, Tautology

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.15, Clube de Autores

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• I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Would Be, Tomorrow, Predicting The Future

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• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

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  Religious, Sex, Attitude

  "Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism". Book by Richard Thomas Eldridge. Chapter: "Conversations with Wittgenstein", p. 130, 1997.

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• If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

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  Use, Logic, Tricks

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 24e), 1980.

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• The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

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  Book, Hard Work, Outcomes

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• The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

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  Happiness, Fate, Grace

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics.

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  Running, Men, Thinking

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• How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.

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  God

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.67, University of Chicago Press

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• What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

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  Definitions, Gains, Should

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

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• When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

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  Home, Essence, Games

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Squares, Glue

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• Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

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  Life, Giving, Use

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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• In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Mean

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

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