What can be shown, cannot be said.
From Ludwig Wittgenstein
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
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.
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.
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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