If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

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

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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language.

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