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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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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 just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)
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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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The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)
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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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Why in the world shouldn't they have regarded with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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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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I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.
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310. A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says 'Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don't make sense at all.'
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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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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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What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense. (5.5571)
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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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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?
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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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