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1 " I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
2 " A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. "
3 " Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
4 " The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves. "
5 " I am my world. "
6 " I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , On Certainty
7 " How small a thought it takes to fill a life. "
8 " Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery. "
9 " We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. "
10 " A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Philosophical Investigations
11 " Don't think, but look! (PI 66) "
12 " An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it. "
13 " Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical. "
14 " Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. "
15 " 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.6.4311Death 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. "
16 " Language disguises thought. "
17 " There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads. "
18 " Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , The Blue and Brown Books
19 " The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. "
20 " Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Culture and Value
