Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.Ludwig Wittgenstein
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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