"You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself"
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"We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is."
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"It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems."
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"[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content."
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"If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness."
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"My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . ."
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"Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression."
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"A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can."
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"There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap."
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"I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again."
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"Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit."
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"A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example."
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"It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all."
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"The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem."
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"How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand."
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"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright."
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"A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting."
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"Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color."
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"How small a thought it takes to fill a life."
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"I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent.""
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