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Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein Culture and Value (1980)

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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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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

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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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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean.

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