"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
"Like everything metaphysical, the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."
"The essential thing about metaphysics: it obliterates the distinction between factual and conceptual investigations."
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."
"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him."
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."
i. Quotes and aphorisms
ii. Random accumulated thoughts and quotations
iii. "..." 3
iv. "..." 2
v. What's left of metaphysics
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