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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
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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.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
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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.
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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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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