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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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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
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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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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote
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The form is the possibility of the structure.
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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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Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
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If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
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If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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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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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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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
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