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So far an amazing experience. Soon will give great quotes on this book.

7 “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.”

6.51 “For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only wear an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.”

5.62 “This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; Only it cannot be sent, but make it self manifest. The world is my world: This is manifest in the fact that the limit of my language (of that language which alone I understand) means the limit if my world.

5.6 “ the limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

5.61 “ we cannot think what we cannot think; so what we cannot think we cannot say either.”

-“Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity”

- A thought is a proportion with sense. The totality of propositions is language”.

-“ logical pictures can depict the world.”

-“a picture is a model of reality”.

-“ the world is all that is the case.”

-“What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about must pass over in silence.”

The idea of a relationship which can be easily dissolved if one is not successful it is an erroneous as the idea that under no circumstances must the relationship be dissolved.

- Love should be essentially an act of will, of decision to commit my life completely to that of the other person.

-To love somebody it’s not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. The feeling comes any may go.

Erotic love is exclusive, but it loves in the other person all of mankind, all that is alive.

if I truly love one person I love all the persons, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to somebody else, “I love you”, I must be able to say, “I love in you everybody, I love you through the world, I love in you also myself.”

-Father’s love should be guided by principal and expectations; it should be patient and tolerant, rather than threatening and authoritarian.
-furthermore, the mature person love with both the motherly and the fatherly conscious, in spite of the fact that they seem to contradict each other.

For the first time in the child’s life the idea of love is transformed from being loved into loving; into creating love.

Love is the active concerned for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

In love the paradox occur that two beings become one and yet remain two.

-Without love, humanity could not exist for a one day.

Women are equal because they are not different anymore.

Equality as a condition for the development of individuality was also the meaning of the concept in the philosophy of the Western enlightenment. It Meant most (clearly formulated by Kant) that no man must be the means for the ends of another man.

Facebook brings to light Basic concept of philosophy in a jocose manner. Some of the jokes are a little bit hard to understand but yet it brings an essence to each of the philosophical thoughts. I would recommend this book to anybody who’s interested for are a basic Introduction

-Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.
- Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? Every great man is a unique.
-Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
-Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.