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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
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The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world. (5.632)
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
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The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
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Worte sind Taten.
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What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
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The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shackled philosophical investigation; for it has not only led to no result, but also made the philosopher dismiss as irrelevant the concrete cases, which alone could have helped him understand the usage of the general term.
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Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
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Kierkegaard writes: If Christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his Scriptures have set Heaven and Earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments? - Question: But then in that case why is this Scriptures so unclear?
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If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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'I never believed in God before.' - that I understand. But not: 'I never really believed in Him before.'
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It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)
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The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word - like a lump of sugar in water.
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Philosophy hasn’t made any progress?-If someone scratches where it itches, do we have to see progress? Is it not genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching?
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.