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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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Suppose someone follows the series 1,3,5,7, .., and in writing the series 2x+1 and he asked himself But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time? If from one day to the next someone promises: Tomorrow I will give up smoking, does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?
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The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.
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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.
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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
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Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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