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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
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When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
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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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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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