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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Body
Doctrine
Logic
World
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thought
Grammar
Harmony
Language
Reality
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Talk
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Concern
Questions
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sun
Will
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
People
Nothing
Silly
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."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture
Vanity
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life
Nature
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language
Misleading
Word
The face is the soul of the body.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Soul
Body
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Behavior
Language
Mankind
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lie
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sleep
Snow
Walking
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing