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Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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  1. To believe in God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a me…
  2. Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
  3. To pray is to think about the meaning of life.
  4. That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
  5. The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.
  6. I once wanted to give a few words in the foreword which now actually are not in it, which, however, I'll write to you now because they migh…
  7. What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists.
  8. 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 ab…

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  • philosophy
  • life
  • perspective
  • self
  • world
  • identity

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