“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
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Made me curious about this Wittgenstein fellow. Assorted quotes:https://twitter.com/simpolism/status/1334520936217899014 …
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“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
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“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
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“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
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“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.” “Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
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“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
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“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.” “There can never be surprises in logic.” Roughly speaking: objects are colourless”
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