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“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”

Quote by Andre Gide

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Andre Gide was a French author born on November 22, 1869, and died on February 19, 1951. Known for his profound literary works and philosophical explorations of morality, Gide is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century French literature. more

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Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.”

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Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.”

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Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.”

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Book:Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics

Source: Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics

“Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.”

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Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.”

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Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein