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#1

“We are thus conscious less of the time than we think, because we cannot be conscious of when we are not conscious.”
― Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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#2

“One does one's thinking before one knows what one is to think about.”
― Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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#3

“Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to occur, consciousness is not necessary. The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.”
― Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

tags: 1976, consciousness, definition, logic, metaconsciousness, reasoning, science

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#4

“The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding”
― Donald Davidson

tags: cognition, interpretation, language

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#5

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

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#6

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: hell, solipsism

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#7

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: afterlife, philosophy, religion

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#8

“Only describe, don't explain.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#9

“Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

tags: meaning, nonsense, philosophy

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#10

“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty

tags: insanity, philosophy

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#11

“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

tags: information, knowledge, problems

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#12

“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#13

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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#14

“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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#15

“If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: religion

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#16

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

tags: life, philosophy, science

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#17

“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#18

“Ethics and aesthetics are one.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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#19

“If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty

tags: certainty, doubt, doubting

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#20

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: denial, self-awareness

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