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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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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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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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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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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
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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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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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The world divides into facts.
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Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.
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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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Your questions refer to words so I have to talk about words. You say:: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.
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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.
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It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
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When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote
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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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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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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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