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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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The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
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Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
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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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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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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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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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Language disguises thought.
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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
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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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One age misunderstands another and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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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 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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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
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