Austrian - Philosopher | April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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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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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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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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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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A picture is a fact.
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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