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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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Philosopher Of Language
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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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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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
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Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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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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For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
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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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Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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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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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
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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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Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
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