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No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.


Ludwig van Beethoven

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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since lo...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not c...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one t...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particula...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
LUDWIG BORNE If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at le...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Debate is the death of conversation.
EMIL LUDWIG Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
LUDWIG BORNE If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the ...
LUDWIG ERHARD It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN ...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my though...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality,...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar o...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relati...
EMIL LUDWIG Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making prog...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off an...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strang...
EMIL LUDWIG Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
LUDWIG BORNE Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dial...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any ph...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A confession has to be part of your new life.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it ...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
LUDWIG BEMELMANS Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can't do that if you have just one ph...
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