"The form is the possibility of the structure."
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Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes (page 13 of 18)
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"One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes."
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"Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it."
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"Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth."
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"The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels."
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"An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it."
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"Elementary propositions consist of names."
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"I am my world."
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"If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us."
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"The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate."
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"The world is everything that is the case."
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"The world divides into facts."
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"This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business."
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"We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough."
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"What can be shown, cannot be said."
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"Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems."
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"You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage."
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"The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law."
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"The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved."
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"Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!"
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