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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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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
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In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
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People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.
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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.
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Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
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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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Language disguises the thought so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.
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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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When philosophers use a word--knowledge, being, object, I, proposition, name--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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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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