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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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If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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Language disguises thought.
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Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
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Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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That the world is, is the mystical.
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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
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We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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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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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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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.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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