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Letter "L" » Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
«Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.»
«For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.»
«I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.»
«The world is the totality of facts, not of things.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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totality
«Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.»
«Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.»
«The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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mystical
«You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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adopting, delude, deluded, deludes, deluding, dread, illness, mentally ill, puzzled
«I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
«(on Sartre) Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Sartre
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