"With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics."
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"No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that."
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"All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one."
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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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"All propositions are of equal value."
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"The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness."
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"We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry."
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"Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied."
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"What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?"
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"If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of."
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"The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought."
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"Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense."
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"I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that."
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"My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one."
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"It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?"
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"A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom."
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"Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27."
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"I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition."
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"Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent."
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"The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience."
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