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205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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The world and life are one. (5.621)
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One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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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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My difficulty is only an - enormous - difficulty of expression.
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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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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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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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It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.
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94. I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.
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Man könnte sagen: „Genie ist Mut im Talent.'
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'It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given.' This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.'
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Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.
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One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief. If there were a verb meaning 'to believe falsely,' it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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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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The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.
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Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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