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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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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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Ethics and aesthetics are one.
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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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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
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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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It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
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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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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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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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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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One age misunderstands another and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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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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If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
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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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A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
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A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here laugh, if you can.
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