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«Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.»
«At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
core, founded, The Core, unfounded, well-founded
«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.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| Keywords:
an event, duration, eternal life, event, life eternal, temporal, timelessness
«One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| Keywords:
mislead, misleading, misleads, representational, techniques, The Technique, the Techniques
«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.»
«The human body is the best picture of the human soul.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Body,
Soul
| Keywords:
human body, human soul, picture, the human body
«The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
aspects, familiarity, Hidden Things, simplicity
«No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| Keywords:
approach, confronted, hence, injured, offended, patiently, spaniel, tolerantly, wounded
«Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
adjustment, adjustments, combination, combination lock, dials, in place, lock
«It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.»
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