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181 " Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Culture and Value
182 " The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
183 " Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Philosophical Investigations
184 " There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world. "
185 " I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. "
186 " Understand or die. "
187 " When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised. "
188 " 5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.5.61 Logic fills the world: the limits of the world are also its limits.We cannot therefore say in logic: This and this there is in the world, that there is not.For that would apparently presuppose that we exclude certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case since otherwise logic must get outside the limits of the world : that is, if it could consider these limits from the other side also.What we cannot think, that we cannot think: we cannot therefore say what we cannot think. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
189 " a nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. "
190 " Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit. "
191 " I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing. "
192 " Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt. "
193 " Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself." (Wittgenstein commenting on Sartre's "Hell is other people. "
194 " It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists "
195 " Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. "
196 " Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this language. And in different surroundings the institution of money doesn’t exist either. "
197 " The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity. "
198 " What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , On Certainty
199 " Roughly speaking: objects are colourless "
200 " A logical picture of facts is a thought. "