"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.“
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'"
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"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."
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"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
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"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
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