Ludwig Wittgenstein | work
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Ludwig Wittgenstein | wisdom
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ‘Wisdom.’ And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.’
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Ludwig Wittgenstein | war
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein | science
Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein | religion
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein | peace
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein | nature
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.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein | music
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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