If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
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The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
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The purely corporeal can be uncanny. Compare the way angels and devils are portrayed. So-called "miracles" must be connected with this. A miracle must be, as it were, a sacred gesture.
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If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.
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But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" Then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?"
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.
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It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
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All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments; no it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much the point of departure, as the element in which our arguments have their life.
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