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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"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
Topic(s):
Peace
"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
Topic(s):
Money
"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
Topic(s):
God
"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
Topic(s):
Famous
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topic(s):
Art
"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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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topic(s):
Education
"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topic(s):
Architecture
"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important."
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topic(s):
Architecture
"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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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topic(s):
Architecture
"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
Topic(s):
Art
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