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141 " For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.The riddle does not exist.If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
142 " What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
143 " The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man. "
144 " Tell me," Wittgenstein's asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating? "
145 " Tell them I've had a wonderful life. "
146 " You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself "
147 " Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. "
148 " If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. "
149 " Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. "
150 " This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. "
151 " The eternal life is given to those who live in the present. "
152 " Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world. "
153 " Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'.... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either. "
154 " One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. "
155 " لا شيء أصعب من تجنب خداع المرء لنفسه. "
156 " The temporal immortality of the soul of man, that is to say, its eternal survival also after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive forever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time. "
157 " The world is everything that is the case. "
158 " The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all "
159 " If a lion could speak, we could not understand him. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Philosophical Investigations
160 " What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Notebooks 1914-1916