Ludwig Wittgenstein

" 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 "
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Death , Experience , Present , Eternity , Infinite
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" Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again "
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Man , Science , Sleep
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" Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness "
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Cleverness
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" You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks "
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" The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood "
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Truth , World , Falsehood , Logic
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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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Want , Question , Philosophy , Peace , Discovery
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" The world is independent of my will "
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Will , World
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" The world is the totality of facts, not of things "
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" There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap, motivational quotes, famous quotes "
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" Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination "
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Imagination , Word
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" What can be shown, cannot be said "
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Imagination , Word
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" What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle "
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy
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" You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language "
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Language
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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26-05-1889 29-04-1951 Philosopher and Logician citation
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