Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.Ludwig Wittgenstein
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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A picture is a model of reality.
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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 this view is still not a clear one.
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