Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

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

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Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

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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.'

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

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