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Il metodo giusto per la filosofia sarebbe questo. Non dire nulla se non ciò che si può dire, cioè le proposizioni della scienza naturale, cioè qualcosa che non ha nulla a che fare con la filosofia: e poi sempre, quando qualcun altro volesse dire qualcosa di metafisico, dimostrargli che non ha dato alcun significato a certi segni nelle sue proposizioni. Questo metodo sarebbe insoddisfacente per l'altro - non avrebbe la sensazione che gli stiamo insegnando la filosofia - ma sarebbe l'unico metodo rigorosamente corretto. Le mie proposizioni sono elucidative in questo modo: chi mi capisce le riconosce finalmente come insensate, quando si è arrampicato attraverso di esse, su di esse, su di esse. (Deve per così dire gettare via la scala, dopo esservi salito). Deve superare queste proposizioni; allora vede il mondo in modo corretto. Se non si può parlare, si deve tacere.
 
For every complicated problem there is a simple, easy to understand, wrong answer.
 
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
 
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.
 
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
 
My neighbor's poverty makes me feel poor; my own does not.
 
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.
 
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
 
All numbers in logic must be capable of justification. Or rather it must become plain that there are no numbers in logic. There are no pre-eminent numbers.
 
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
 
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.
 
Neurons that fire together wire together.
 
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
 
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
 
If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast!
 
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
 
It’s a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they’d just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.
 
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. 
 
The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.
 
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives.
 
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