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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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p. 96
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
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Conversation of 1947 or 1948
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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Conversation of 1934
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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Conversation of 1930
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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Conversation of 1930
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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Conversation of 1930
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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.
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Conversation of 1930 | Similar to Wittgenstein's written notes of the "Big Typescript" published in Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993) edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, p. 175: Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes,
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Philosophy hasn't made any progress?—If someone scratches where it itches, do we have to see progress? Is it not genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching?
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p. 98e
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One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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p. 98e
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The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.
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p. 91e
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