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“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting…

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What can be shown, cannot be said.

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“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection…

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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

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White must be the lightest color in a picture.

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Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of…

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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…

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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…

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?…

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There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration…

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