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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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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.
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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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People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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The world is made up of facts, not things.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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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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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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That the world is, is the mystical.
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There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
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A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
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