Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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.'
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.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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.
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.
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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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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