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I am my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
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Philosopher
Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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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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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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The form is the possibility of the structure.
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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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Language disguises the thought so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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