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Attributed quotes — Ludwig Wittgenstein

1889–1951 Austria

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

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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Attributed The Beginning of the End (2004)

This is not for me, I want an entirely rural spot.

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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.

Attributed Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information (2008)

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

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Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: "To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby." That is what I would have liked to say about my work.

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The meaning of a question is the method of answering it: then what is the meaning of 'Do two men really mean the same by the word "white"?' Tell me how you are searching, and I will tell you what you are searching for.

Attributed Philosophical Remarks (1991)

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

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Why in the world shouldn't they have regarded with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated. 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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