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To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)
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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
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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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If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.
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Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
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'Everything is already there in....' How does it come about that an arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - 'No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that.' - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
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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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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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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot. (3.0321)
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One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.
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People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.
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The way you use the word 'God' does not show whom you mean - but, rather, what you mean.
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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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Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
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Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: 'To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby.' That is what I would have liked to say about my work.
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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.
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225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.
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If life becomes hard to bear we think of improvements. But the most important and effective improvement, in our own attitude, hardly occurs to us, and we can decide on this only with the utmost difficulty.
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