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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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Philosopher Of Language
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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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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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The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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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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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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I am my world.
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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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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
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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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The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
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