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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  1. For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its …
  2. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
  3. 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 t…
  4. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
  5. At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
  6. If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enab…
  7. A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
  8. If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

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  • life
  • faith
  • psychology
  • religion
  • tragedy

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