“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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