"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

War, Eyes, Fashion, Today

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"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."

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"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."

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"Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized."

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"For a truly religious man nothing is tragic."

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"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."

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"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another."

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"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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"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."

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