If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense.
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What makes a subject difficult to understand, if it is significant, important, is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.
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Logic pervades the world: the limits of the world are also its limits. So we cannot say in logic, "The world has this in it, and this, but not that." For that would appear to presuppose that we were excluding certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case, since it would require that logic should go beyond the limits of the world; for only in that way could it view those limits from the other side as well. We cannot think what we cannot think; so what we cannot think we cannot say either.
from the book "" by Ennio Flaiano
The reason behind philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy isn't a doctrine, but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially in illustrations. The result of philosophy aren't "philosophical proposals", but the clarification of propositions. Philosophy must clarify and distinctly delimit the thoughts that otherwise would be cloudy and faint.
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With my numerous signs of punctuation in truth are a way of slowing down the reading rythm. Because I would like to be read slowly.
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Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
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Whoever is only advenced on his own time, by his time he will be reached.
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
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Posted by: Ruggero Raba
The world is the totality of facts, not things.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Posted by: Valentina Salomoni
Language is a labyrinth of roads, you come one way and you know which way to go, you get to the same point somewhere else to find you're lost.
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