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    6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

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    About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

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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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    A confession has to be part of your new life.

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    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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    A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

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    Aim at being loved without being admired.

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    All I know is what I have words for.

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    All mathematics is tautology.

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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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    All propositions are of equal value.

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    Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

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    A logical picture of facts is a thought.

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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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    A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

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    A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

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    A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

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    And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

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    A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

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    An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

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    An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

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

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    A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

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    A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

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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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    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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    Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

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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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    A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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    Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

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    A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

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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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    At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

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    At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

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    A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

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    Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

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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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    Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

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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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    Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

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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 but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

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    Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

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    Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

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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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    Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

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    Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.

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    Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

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    Elementary propositions consist of names.

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    Ethics and aesthetics are one.

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    For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.