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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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387. I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.
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I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition is the picture of the situation. I am almost inclined to give up all my efforts. --
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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in 'explaining' symptoms of an illness.
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Frazer's account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors.
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) (5)
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Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say 'yes' to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say 'I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same.'
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Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
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Tell them I've had a wonderful life.