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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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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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Language disguises thought.
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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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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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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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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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The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.
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Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
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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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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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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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There can never be surprises in logic.
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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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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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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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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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