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Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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  1. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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  2. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.
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  3. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    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 i

  4. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    There can never be surprises in logic.
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  5. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
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  6. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Philosophical Investigations

    Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.
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  7. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
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  8. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life."
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  9. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.
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  10. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
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  11. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    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.
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  12. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
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