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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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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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Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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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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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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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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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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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 picture is a model of reality.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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Everything is already there in.... How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - No, not the dead line on paper only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that. - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
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This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
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The world is made up of facts, not things.
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
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