"Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify."
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"What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly."
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"If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?"
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"If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative."
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"If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images."
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"A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense."
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"Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard."
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"We must plow through the whole of language."
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"I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings."
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"There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies."
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"It is love that believes the resurrection."
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"Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you."
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"The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
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"Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them."
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"You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth."
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"That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof."
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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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"Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound."
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"Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything."
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"When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind."
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