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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
Epistemologist
Logician
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Philosopher
Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
Austria
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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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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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
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That the world is, is the mystical.
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If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.
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There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
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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, 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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A picture is a model of reality.
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Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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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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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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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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To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
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