"A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them."
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"Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs"
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"Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it."
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"It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it."
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"You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language."
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"Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us."
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"The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher."
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"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."
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"Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out."
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"Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized."
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"The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense."
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"Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?"
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"Tell them I've had a wonderful life."
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"About what one can not speak, one must remain silent."
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"The eternal life is given to those who live in the present."
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"The world is independent of my will."
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"An entire mythology is stored within our language."
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"Man is the microcosm: I am my world."
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"Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be."
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"I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me."
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