Poems List

Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
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The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

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Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.

to his doctor’s wife, before losing consciousness, 28 April 1951

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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

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What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) preface

The world is everything that is the case.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

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The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

Philosophische Untersuchungen (1953) pt. 1, sect. 255

What is your aim in philosophy?—To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Philosophische Untersuchungen (1953) pt. 1, sect. 309

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