"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."

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"The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language."

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"Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple."

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"At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded."

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"An entire mythology is stored within our language."

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"Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing."

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"It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an 'illogical' world would look like."

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"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."

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

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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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