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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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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: Let's have done with it now, and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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A picture is a model of reality.
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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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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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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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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There can never be surprises in logic.
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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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Elementary propositions consist of names.
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A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
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When philosophers use a word--knowledge, being, object, I, proposition, name--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
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For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
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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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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
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Everything is already there in.... How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - No, not the dead line on paper only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that. - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
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I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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