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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 form is the possibility of the structure.
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Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
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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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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
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Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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