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  1. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.
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  2. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life."
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  3. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.
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  4. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.
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  5. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
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  6. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.
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  7. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    Perhaps what is inexpressible {what I find mysterious and am not able to express} is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.
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  8. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    We are struggling with language.We are engaged in a struggle with language.
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  9. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
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  10. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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  11. Ludwig Wittgenstein _ Culture and Value

    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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