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81 " There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
82 " 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. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Culture and Value
83 " The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. "
84 " I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. "
85 " Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Philosophical Investigations
86 " The world is independent of my will. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
87 " The human body is the best picture of the human soul. "
88 " A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. "
89 " 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. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits. "
90 " Ethics and aesthetics are one. "
91 " When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there. "
92 " Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that? "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951
93 " Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen. "
94 " My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn’t live much longer. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore
95 " That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how natural these things are to us. We do not notice that we see space perspectivally or that our visual field is in some sense blurred towards the edges. It doesn’t strike us and never can strike us because it is the way we perceive. We never give it a thought and it’s impossible we should, since there is nothing that contrasts with the form of our world.What I wanted to say is it’s strange that those who ascribe reality only to things and not to our ideas move about so unquestioningly in the world as idea and never long to escape from it. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Philosophical Remarks
96 " If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do. "
97 " The face is the soul of the body. "
98 " The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Zettel
99 " Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! "
100 " I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition. "