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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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6.4311Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit. .Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken.Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit.Ein philosophisches Werk besteht wesentlich aus Erläuterungen.Das Resultat der Philosophie sind nicht »philosophische Sätze«, sondern das Klarwerden von Sätzen.Die Philosophie soll die Gedanken, die sonst, gleichsam, trübe und verschwommen sind, klar machen und scharf abgrenzen.4.112 The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear. Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Language disguises thought.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silenceLudwig Wittgenstein
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The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propositions of natural science, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other - he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy - but it would be the only strictly correct method. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world. To all of them the logical structure is common.( Like the two youths, their two horses and their lilies in the story. They are all in a certain sense one.)Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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There can never be surprises in logic.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an "illogical" world would look like.Ludwig Wittgenstein