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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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In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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All I know is what I have words for.
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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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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
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Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
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To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
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The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
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Suppose someone follows the series 1,3,5,7, .., and in writing the series 2x+1 and he asked himself But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time? If from one day to the next someone promises: Tomorrow I will give up smoking, does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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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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Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
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Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
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Ethics and aesthetics are one.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
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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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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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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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