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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

_Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations_
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 Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Oct 18,2020

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Only when we are able to attribute a real meaning to the world and to life shall we be able to give ourselves to such action

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 Only when we are able to attribute a real meaning to the world and to life shall we be able to give ourselves to such action

Oct 21,2020

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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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 To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Oct 24,2020

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Where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas

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 Where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas

Nov 06,2020

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What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated… We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to

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 What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated… We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to

Nov 25,2020

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Philosophers often seem to think that they can just ‘assign’ any meaning whatever to any word; and so no doubt, in an

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 Philosophers often seem to think that they can just ‘assign’ any meaning whatever to any word; and so no doubt, in an

Dec 30,2020

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find

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 Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find

Jan 30,2021

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When someone utters the word “iron” or “silver,” don’t we all think of the same thing? … But what happens when we say “just”

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 When someone utters the word “iron” or “silver,” don’t we all think of the same thing? … But what happens when we say “just”

Mar 23,2021

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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas

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 To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas

May 22,2021

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In my way of doing philosophy, its whole aim is to give an expression such a form that certain disquietudes disappear.

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 In my way of doing philosophy, its whole aim is to give an expression such a form that certain disquietudes disappear.

Nov 13,2021

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The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

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 The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

Dec 17,2021

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That little word ‘why’ has run through all universe from the first day of creation, and all nature cries every minute to

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 That little word ‘why’ has run through all universe from the first day of creation, and all nature cries every minute to

Jan 15,2022

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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and

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 We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and

Jan 23,2022

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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

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 A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

Feb 18,2022

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Suppose someone said: ‘What do you believe, Wittgenstein? Are you a sceptic? Do you know whether you will survive death?’

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 Suppose someone said: ‘What do you believe, Wittgenstein? Are you a sceptic? Do you know whether you will survive death?’

Mar 14,2022

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Jun 03,2022

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Poetry and philosophy are, depending on one’s point of view, different spheres, different forms, or simply the component

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 Poetry and philosophy are, depending on one’s point of view, different spheres, different forms, or simply the component

Dec 26,2022

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but

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 Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but

Jan 07,2023

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There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without interest in grammar. Philology

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 There is no philologist without philology in the original sense of the word; that is, without interest in grammar. Philology

Jan 19,2023

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Very many controversies have arisen from the fact that men do not rightly explain their meaning, or do not rightly interpret

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 Very many controversies have arisen from the fact that men do not rightly explain their meaning, or do not rightly interpret

Feb 16,2023

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Tao called Tao is not Tao. Names can name no lasting name. Nameless: the origin of heaven and earth. Naming: the mother of

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 Tao called Tao is not Tao. Names can name no lasting name. Nameless: the origin of heaven and earth. Naming: the mother of

Mar 03,2023

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Asking whether and how a proposition can be verified is only a special form of the question “How do you mean?” The answer is

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 Asking whether and how a proposition can be verified is only a special form of the question “How do you mean?” The answer is

Mar 07,2023

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