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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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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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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
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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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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
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The world is made up of facts, not things.
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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
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A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
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